Role Reboot

How My Daughter’s Diagnosis Changed The Way I See Her

I never imagined that western medicine might not have the answers. “Dr. N. is also on the phone,” the genetic counselor says. I balance my cell between my cheek and shoulder, kiss my daughter, Joy, on the forehead and adjust her wheelchair’s straps. I nod to the nurse our school district provides to manage Joy’s […]

Why Angelina Jolie Really Is A Badass

In writing about her surgery, Jolie looks shame right in the face and refuses it: for herself, for other women, for me. I thank her for that. Once I visited a friend in Alaska, the kind of woman who camps in the snow in a tent with a woodstove. She surprised me by insisting we […]