Freelance Writing

• “Would-You-Rathers for Your Summer Vacation” (digital, June 2023)
• “Classroom Valentines By Emily Dickinson” (digital, February 2023)
• “The Best Animals to Watch Your Baby, According to Hemingway” (digital, July 2022)
• “How to Pick Out a Good Melon” (digital, July 2021)
• “Alternatives to National Novel Writing Month” (digital, November 2020)
• “What ‘Sweater Weather’ Is” (digital, October 2019)
• “What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting a Tax Refund” (digital, March 2018).

• “A Camping Trip With Young Kids, As Imagined By Me Before Having Kids” (July 2023)
• “Serving Meals to Young Children, Or Working in an Upscale Restaurant” (May 2023)
• “Holiday Air Travel Haiku” (December 2022)
• “Collective Nouns for Parenting” (January 2022)
• “2021 Parenting Back-to-School Bingo” (August 2021)
• “Alanis Morisette’s ‘Ironic’ Revised for Exasperated Parents” (April 2021)
• “Would-You-Rathers for Parents During Quarantine” (June 2020)
• “Living Through a Pandemic or Potty Training a Toddler” (April 2020)
• “Times I’ve Silently Belted ‘Let it Go’ To Cope With Corporate Culture” (November 2019)
• “Famous Opening Lines Rewritten for Back-to-School Time” (September 2019)
• “23 Impossible-To-Find Items That Your Camper Must Bring Tomorrow” (July 2019)
• “Spring Getaways for the Socially Awkward” (April 2019)
• “Before Bingeing on Hallmark Holiday Movies, Please Agree to These Terms” (December 2018)
• “William Carlos Williams Poems for Introverts” (September 2018)
• “Chopped Narrates Me Cooking a Summer Side Dish” (August 2018)
• “Parenting Blizzard Bingo” (January 2018)
• “Some Notes for My Child’s College Roommate” (August 2016)
• “Screen Time: An FAQ” (November 2015)
• “Toddler Discipline Made Easy” (July 2015)
• “Short Essays on Favorite Songs: ‘One Tree Hill’ by U2” (February 2005)

• If Hallmark Holiday Movies Were Made for Parents in 2020 (digital, December 2020)
• “Rules of the Sibling Fight Club” (print, June 2018)
• “Is Your Kid Ready for School Picture Day?” (print, October 2017) print pdf
• “8 Things I Won’t Miss About the Toddler Years”(digital, May 2017)
• “Math Word Problems for Today’s Parents” (print, May 2017) print pdf
• “Reasons Your Baby Isn’t Sleeping (Abridged)” (print, April 2017). print pdf 
• “6 Ways Holiday Plane Travel is Different Before vs. After Kids” (digital, October 2016)
• “6 Ways Halloween is Different Before vs. After Kids” (digital, September 2016)

• “Little Free Libraries We Wish Existed” (print, February 2020)
• “Thank You For Calling The Book Club Helpline” (print, June 2019) print pdf
• “The Life-Changing Magic of Organizing Your Organizational Supplies” (print, July 2018) print pdf  | digital version.

• “Honey, if you keep snoring like that, I’m moving to Fiji.” (Solo-ish blog, June 2017)

• “I’m the Telephone in Goodnight Moon, Why Didn’t I Get Wished Goodnight?” (June 2021)
• “Thank You For Calling The Writer Envy Helpline” (July 2019)

• “Funny Women #157: Habits of Less Successful Writers” (November 2017)

• “Lifetime Holiday Movie Rejects: 9 Plots That Would Never Fly” Marie Claire (December 2016)

• “Writing Prompts for When You Can’t Write Due to a Global Crisis” (blog, May 2020)
• “Classic Jokes for Writers” (blog, June 2018)
• “The Writer’s Index” (blog, June 2016)

• “The Writing Routines of Parents Who Attempt to Write” (May 2020)
• “Wizarding Houses for Writers” (December 2018)
• “9 Alternatives to the Standard Form Rejection Letter” (February 2017)

• “The 5 Stages of Grief When Your Child Isn’t Into Your Favorite Book” (June 2020)

• “17 Productivity Hacks You Probably Shouldn’t Try” (February 2016)

• “What Your Toddler’s Behavior Reveals to You About Their Future” (June 2018)
• “8 Ways to Cope When You See Me Board a Plane With My Babies” (June 2016)
• “Baby Not Sleeping? These Commenters Think They Can Help” (Feb 2016)

• “Welcome to Nextdoor Fight Club, Where You Must Turn Every Topic into a Fight” (March 2019)

• “13 Clever Comebacks to Rude Comments About Your Baby” (April 2017)

• “The Mandalorian’s Instructions to the Babysitter” on Frazzled
• “Welcome To Toddler Restaurant, Where You Can Dine Underneath Or On Top Of The Tables” on Slackjaw
• “20 Markets That Publish Humor Writing” on The Writing Cooperative
• “Daily Itinerary of an Insta Influencer Who Will Unfollow You” on The Belladonna

And here is a link to all my Medium publication pieces

• “11 Unique Playgrounds Around the World” (digital, November 2018)
• “How to Visit Denver with Kids” (digital, September 2016)

• “The Best Places to Visit for Dinosaur Lovers of Any Age” (digital, May 2019)
• “How to See Colorado Through an Author’s Eyes” (digital, July 2016)

• “The Mom’s Guide to Denver” (September 2019)

• “7 Authors Recommend the Perfect Places to Read Their Books” (October 2019)
• “Living the Dream: I’m a BackCountry Guide in Colorado” (July 2019)
• “5 Family-Friendly (and Surprisingly Affordable) Colorado Resort Towns” (September 2018)

• “Summer Dreaming: 5 Camping Spots to Reserve Now”   (digital, December 2016)
• 5 Boulder Restaurants with Unique Kids’ Menus  (digital, January 2016)

• “9 Best Family-Friendly Hotels in Denver” (September 2019)
• “5 Kid-Friendly Hikes for Denver Area Families” (June 2017)
• “20 Free Things for Families to Do in Denver” (June 2017)

• “Greetings From Boulder, Colorado” (March 2016)
• “Checklist: Denver, Colorado” (November 2015)

• “With a flexible work schedule, working out how much child care coverage to get” (On Parenting blog, October 2017)
• “Here’s what we wish you would do when you’re on a plane with our screaming kids” (On Parenting blog, September 2015)

• “How I Finally Learned to Let Go of Overplanning on Vacation” (digital, June 2017)

• “For Me, Parenting Will Never Be As Simple As Trusting My Instincts” (April 2022)
• “Why I Gave Up Trying to Create the Perfect Halloween Costume” (digital, October 2018)

• “5 Tips for Navigating New Parenthood as an Introvert” (September 2021)

• “How to Cope When You’re Feeling Overstimulated as an Introverted Parent of Young Kids”(August 2021)

• I’ve written several essays and humor pieces for Mom.com. You can find them here.

• I’ve written travel and humor pieces for Mommy Nearest. You can find them here.

• “How We Updated Our Old Home on a Budget” Elle Decor, House Beautiful, and Country Living (March 2016)
• “I Really Regret Buying an Old House” House Beautiful and Country Living (October 2016)

• “I was an Amazon Drudge” (November 2015)

• “Postcard from Suburbia” (print, December 2015) print pdf| digital version

• “This Christmas Letter Gets Rave Reviews” (print, December 2005)

• Author profile of Jessica Pan for her book Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come (June 2019)

• “Caitlin Kunkel Wants to Turn You On—Equitably” (March 2019)

• “‘Corn Fed’ Writer Melanie LaForce On Anxiety, Writing, And Coming Of Age In The Midwest” (January 2019)

• “Indigenous Writers Deserve More Credit for Being Hilarious” (December 2019)

• “THE RUMPUS MINI-INTERVIEW PROJECT #147: SAADIA FARUQI” (August 2018)

(On Parenting blog, September 2015)