journalism Student saves money on gas, fuels car with vegetable oil: Published October 5, 2006, in the Good Five Cent Cigar (URI student newspaper)
Professor discusses women role models in biographies: Published November 3, 2006, in the Good Five Cent Cigar
creative nonfiction & essays Disappearing Act: "Whenever I write, she comes sneaking onto the page, hiding behind the curves in every letter, sitting and grinning between the spaces. I don’t know why, exactly."
The Life of a Bookworm: "For as long as I can remember, there has been a different world underlying my own. Beneath my daily life, beneath school and work and friends and experiences, there simmers a delectable, extraordinary world..."
Female Sexuality in American Culture: "How many young women do you know who are genuinely sexually confident? I don’t mean girls who just like to show skin and regularly talk to any willing listener about their latest sexual adventures."
fiction Winter Ghosts: "We are chimney-smoke and breath vapors, the sparks of dying embers and the ash of burnt newspapers."
You'll Know the Day: "Spring takes me by surprise this morning. I step out my door and fall into a riot of flowers, bursting tipsy from the ground and stumbling over each other..."
The Same Old Screw-Up: "From the moment Julia told me that Simon had proposed, I knew she would be one of those brides who spends a year planning her wedding. You know, obsessing over the seating chart to make sure that Uncle Clyde doesn’t get seated next to his insane ex-wife..."
The Phoenix and the Crow: "Grandfather’s funeral was on an unusually warm autumn day, on which the half-frozen ground reluctantly started to sweat and the dead leaves were stirred zombielike by a feverish wind."
blog entries
Happy Wandering Day: "The Providence Journal had a feature the other day on interesting things to do on Memorial Day. I picked “Shop Downcity,” an event on Westminster St. where the shops do kind of a sidewalk sale, selling stuff outside at discounted prices."
Trip to Quebec City, summer 2008: "I spent last week in Québec City with my best friend Nikki, my parents, my dad's cousin and her husband. This was my third trip to Québec and I love it more every time."
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