All Essays & Publications

2026

The Grey Area of Women’s Health: What happens to our bodes during the in-between years (Middle-Pause)

2025

I Tried Testosterone: I didn’t grow a mustache, but I did grow cojones (Middle-Pause)

The Truth about Aging: Living longer doesn’t mean living better (Middle-Pause)

The FDA Removed the Black Box Warning for Hormone Replacement Therapy: What it means for women’s health (Middle-Pause)

I Couldn’t Sleep for Three Years: One hormone changed everything (Middle-Pause)

Stop Telling Women to Self-Advocate: The problem with advice that blames us instead of systemic failures (Middle-Pause)

Are You There, Vagina? It’s me, Margaret, your perimenopausal owner (Middle-Pause)

An Ode to Phone Bans and Bad Behavior: Teaching without cellphones restored joy to my classroom (A Teacher’s Life)

2024

I Have Anxiety About My Anxiety: Perimenopause brings lots of questions and no clear answers (Middle-Pause)

My Job, Like the Anaconda in my Dream, Is Consuming Me: I had a nightmare that I was being slowly squeezed to death by an Anaconda. As a teacher, that’s how I feel every day (EdSurge)

Teachers Deserve More than Chicken Sandwiches: Teacher Appreciation Week—It’s complicated (self-published, Medium)

The Case Against Lesson Plans: As Teachers Struggle with a never ending to-do list, consider taking this off their plates (self-published, Medium)

2023

Quiz: Teacher or Child Laborer from the Industrial Revolution: Working a 16-hour day with no breaks is normal in my world (The Belladonna Comedy)

2022

Leaving Education? But what will you do? (self-published, Medium)

Jeans Days & Nacho Bars are Not the Solution to the Education Crisis (self-published, Medium)

2021

1-Star Reviews of Feminine Products Written by Female Characters From Classic Literature (Slackjaw)

Dear Woman Who Anonymously Stocks the Faculty Restroom with Tampons: Nowhere does feminine radiance shine brighter than in the women’s faculty restroom (The Belladonna Comedy)

2020

Job Posting: Human Anxiety Thermometer for our Household: Please, join our family. ASAP (Points in Case)