AWARDS
Third Place, Humor Writing (2024 Green Eyeshade Awards, recognizing excellence in journalism in the southeast)
Third Place, Humor Writing (2023 Green Eyeshade Awards, recognizing excellence in journalism in the southeast)
First Place, Tavel Writing, non-daily print media (2021 Green Eyeshade Awards, recognizing excellence in journalism in the southeast)
First Place, Humor Writing (2020 Green Eyeshade Awards, recognizing excellence in journalism in the southeast)
Second Place, Humor Columnist (2019 National Society of Newspaper Columnists)
CONSUMER MAGAZINES
Travel + Leisure, This 247-mile Mural Trail Is an Art Revolution in Alabama’s Black Belt, January, 2024
Garden and Gun,This Strange Ballet April/May 2022
The Writer, Why are Writers so Prone to Self-Doubt? August, 2021
Psychology Today,“To Love and To Envy: When One Partner Outshines the Other”June, 2018
Oxford American, “Ode to Horse Days,” Summer, 2010
Oxford American, “HOME ON THE HILLS,” Spring 2009
Oxford American, “A Ghostly Blur,” May 2008
Oxford American, Invited Guest Writer for Best of Southern Literature poll, Southern Literature Issue 2009
The Writer, Look, I wrote about you!,” September 2019
The Writer, “When Good Assignments Go Bad,” 2017
The Writer,“Laughter on the Ledge of Despair,”2015
The Writer, “How to Cure a Case of Writer’s Block,” March, 2020
The Writer, “An Honor Just to be Nominated,” July, 2020
Bark Magazine, “There is Now Only This,” Summer 2017
Parade.com, Various health/workout articles, 2016
Writersdigest.com February, 2016
STYLE: Artful Living in Atlanta, “By the Time You Is, You Ain’t,” Summer, 2000
ONLINE VERTICALS
The Today Show, “I Never Liked Kids. Then They Started Sending Me Letters.”
Better Humans, “How Life Coaching Fixed what Therapy Left Broken,” September, 2017
Nextavenue.org, See various articles
The Ethel See various articles)
Guest blogger for Dr. Nina Savelle Rockland, “#&*%$ my Anorexia Said“
Guest blogger for Dr. Stacy Rosenfeld, “The Best Worst Question,” March 11, 2015 (you’ll have to scroll down a bit for this one)
CHATTER Magazine
Sheltering in Place: Covid and Our Animal Shelters, December 2021
For Better or for Worse Relationships in the Time of COVID-19 February 2021
Best Laid Plans What Quarantine Promised and What it Delivered January 2021
Helping Hands: Chattanooga Area Veterinarians with Nonprofits
Where in the World is Willine? My husband and I take his 79 year-old mother on her first trip to New York City; April 2020
“Hybrid Holidays: How I Stopped Crying and Started Celebrating,” December 2018
“Let’s Get Personal: Assistants for All Occasions,” October, 2017
“Dinners With Friends, For Friends, By Friends” October, 2017
“Of Mares and Men: Riding the Range in San Miguel de Allende”July, 2016
Recipe for success: Sweet and Savory Classroom teaches cooking and leadership | Chattanooga Times Free Press
“Gimme Shelter: Bob Citrullo’s New Humane Educational Society,“ December, 2015
“Just Cause: What Happens at Home Stays at Home,” January, 2013
“Healthy Food, Healthy Communities: Gaining Ground, Growing Power,” February, 2013
“Field of Dreams: Chattanooga’s Sculpture Fields,” March 2013
“Beyond the Drama An Inside Look at Chattanooga’s Theater Companies,” 2013
“Heave Ho with the Ho Hum: a Profile of Michelle Workman, Designer,“ June, 2013
Professional Verticals
Veterinary Social Workers: Offering Hope and Help; NewSTAT, a publication of the American Animal Hospital Association, November 2024
Writing Class Radio, The Accident (aka The Passing of Sorrow), December 2024
How I’m keeping the memory of my mom alive in the face of Alzheimer’s, Verywell Mind, February, 2025
GET OUT Magazine
“A Balk in the Woods,” Nov. 2015
“No Way, Jose: The Road to Oaxaca Leads to Key West,” May, 2017
EDGE Magazine
“When is the Right Time to Change Jobs?” Summer, 2012
LITERARY JOURNALS
Rockvale Review, The Sunny Glow of Imagined Future Accomplishment, November, 2024
storySouth,This is How I Leave, Fall 2022
Appalachian Review, “We’re Very Sorry for your Loss,” Fall 2021
Longridge Review, All You Can’t Eat, Winter 2021-22
JMWW,“The Light of Day is a Crucible,” March, 2019 (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays)
Lime Hawk Literary Arts Collective (Parts Unbound, Anthology),“Tell Me About Yourself,” excerpted from The Body Tourist, 2015
Zone 3,“The Rat,” Fall, 2012
Puerto Del Sol, “A Lesson in Astronomy,” Summer 2006
Fourth Genre, “Two People Who Ordinarily Would Never Meet,” (Fall, 2003) (also a part of the national MUSE project)
Hawaii Pacific Review, “The Pig Report,” Fall, 2001
Third Coast, “Abstractions,” Spring, 2001
Alaska Quarterly Review: One Blood: The Narrative Impulse (anthology) “The Father, the Son, and the Horse’s Ghost,” Fall, 2000
The Sun, “Story,” May, 2000
Sulphur River Literary Review, “Falling,” Winter, 1999, and “Thirteen Years,” Spring, 1999
Palo Alto Review, “Signs of Life” and “A Brilliant Man,” Winter, 1998
Willow Review, “Words,” Fall, 1997
Talking River Review, “My Father’s Ocean,” Spring, 1996
Kinesis, “Big Head Horses,” Summer, 1996
CHATTANOOGA TIMES FREE PRESS
FOOD WRITING: My food writing appears when it appears
August 30, 2024 Food Trucks: Quite Possibly the World’s Greatest Job
August 25, 2024 What to Eat at 7-11 Now
August 20, 2024 Mazel Tov to Nosh-a-Nooga, Chattanooga’s First Jewish Food Festival
August 17, 2024 Blackstone Grille is Comfortable, Tavern-like, and Yes, On an Exit
COLUMNS: My columns appear every third Sunday in the Lifestyle section
My book,Finding the World: Thoughts of Life, Love, Home and Dogs is a collection of my most popular columns from the past twenty years. Get it on Amazon and read them all.
The angriest man in the world, August 2025
It’s been an hour, and now I’m homesick, July, 2025
Relationship advice from the dog training world, June 2025
If you ever want to see me again, don’t invite me to Lupton Hall, May 2025
A wedding and a loss bring joy and heartbreak, April 2025
When losing your baggage is the best possible outcome, March 2025
My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea, February, 2025
The lob is the future, January 2025
The Cornhole Diaries, December, 2024
All theLight I Cannot See, November, 2024
What a Long, Strange Trip it’s Been, October, 2024
Walk Softly and Carry a Big Chainsaw, September 2024
It’s Been Great Not Getting to Know You, August 2024
Somebody Stop Feeding Phil, July 2024
His Intelligence is Artificial, but my Love is Real, June 2024
High Above Wyoming, a Geography Lesson Unfolds, May 2024
Ode to a Southern Seder, April, 2024
There’s No Blood Like Donated Blood, March 2024
The Whole World is Broken, February, 2024
I thought I was enjoying yoga. Then I caught sight of my face in the mirror, January, 2024
A How-Not-To Guide to Everything, December 2023
The Secret Life of Poodle, November 2023
When Your Partner is Drugged and Thrown in a Lake, October 2023
At the Heart of my Impatience, September 2023
Change Changes. And it Changes Us, August 2023
I Saw a Vulture and Now My Life is a Complete Mystery, June 2023
Who is This Daughter I Have Become? May 2023
Little House on the Mantel, April 2023
Nothing Anywhere All at Once, March 2023
No Goats Were Harmed in the Writing of this Column, Feb. 2023
Everything I Thought About in the Chicken Coop, January 2023
Kindness and Compassion are No Accident,December 2022
Husband Decides it’s Time for The Talk, November 2022
Spooky Action at a Distance, October 2022
So This is Covid, September 2022
Life, Part Two: Where Do We Go From Here? August 2022
Pain is Boring, July 2022
Forget Dad Jokes; My Dad Had Dog Jokes, June 2022
Why I am Quitting Writing and Taking Up Particulate Chemistry, May 2022
Nevertheless, Should You Persist? April 2022
Don’t Sleep. Here’s How March 2022
I Fixed the Dryer, and Other News of the Day, Feb. 2022
Two Life Coaching Heads are Faster than One, January 2022
Mom on Facebook? Goodbye, Privacy, Dec. 2021
This is Your Brain on Sixty, November 2021
When Truth is off the Menu, Sept. 2021
The False Promise of the Sheet Pan Supper August 2021
My Husband Turns Sixty: A Lament July 2021
When the Hunt for Home Becomes Just a Game May 2021
After a Long Winter, Where Are We? April 2021
A History of My Life in Chickens March 2021
The Man in the Trench Coat saves–and Ruins–the Day February 2021
The Parlor, the Coffee Table, and a Message to Future Me January 2021
Loss of Job Rounds Out Year of Unexpected Changes December 2020
Making Rooms to Make Room November 2020
The Magic of Not Tidying Up October 2020
The Unexpected Joy of Midlife Sports (or Hey, I Don’t Hate This!) September 2020
Scholars Tell Difference Between Dreams and Fantasies August 2020
Thirteenth Move is a Charm June, 2020
A Poodle, a Pandemic, and the Price of Quarantine May 2020
On Lockdown with Paris Hilton, April 2020
How to Create the Perfect Child, and other lies, March 2020
Elegy for My Deep Thoughts, February 2020
Stop and Suck the Flowers January, 2020
Goodbye, Sweet Theo Nov. 2019
Internet search reveals truths, untruths about usOct.2019
Movie Disagreements Just the Beginning Sept. 2019
In Marriage Direction Not Always Clear Dec. 2018
Harold and the Purple Crayon: Self determination in action
Making excuses for not making time, May 2019
A Few Thoughts on Moving and Change, May 2017
Teaching children compassion for animals Sept. 2018
The Hard Life of a Souvenir March 2016