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Make visible what, without you, might never have been seen.
-- Robert Bresson

My creative non-fiction appears in several anthologies and widely on the Web.

Stuff you can read NOW:

My column, Red Diaper Dharma appears monthly at Literary Mama:

June 2008: "The Missing Years"
May 2008: "The Family Food"
April 2008: "My Upcoming Life as a Part-Time Wife"
March 2008: "The Hands On/Hands Off Mother"
February 2008: "On Binges and Benders"
January 2008: "The Inlooker's Lament"
December 2007: "Who Am I Without My Wallet?"
November 2007: "On the Floor, in the Dark, with a Candle"
September 2007: "Ists and Isn'ts"
August 2007: "Summer Clearance"
July 2007: "My Other Mother"
June 2007: "My Other (Childfree, Single) Life"
May 2007: "My Good Abortion"
April 2007: "The Hiders and the Hunters"
March 2007: "Truth. Parenting. Sex. Ouch."
February 2007: "The Things She Gave Me, The Things I Took Away"
January 2007: "Death Watch"
December 2006: "I Hate Christmas"
November 2006: "BRANDED! A Godless Couple Celebrates 20 Years"
October 2006: "On Moderation and Microbes"
August 2006: "Nectarines and Blue Paper"
July 2006: "Wearing the Family Party Face" (introductory column)

"An Interview with Marion Winik," a discussion about myths and truths of the writing life.

"Mama Sez: Stepmother: What's in a Name"

"Mama Sez: Writing Is Rewriting"

"Why My Garden" My journey to Auschwitz.

"Inchworm Turns Three" excerpted from Toddler: Real-Life Stories of Those Fickle, Irrational, Urgent, Tiny People We Love

 

Available in bookstores:

"Why My Garden" in Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined
(
Ed. Andrea Buchanan and Amy Hudock, PhD., Seal Press, 2006)

"Digging Dordogne" in France, A Love Story: Women Write About the French Experience
(Ed. Camille Cusumano, Seal Press, 2004)

"Inchworm Turns Three" in Toddler: Real-Life Stories of Those Fickle, Irrational, Urgent, Tiny People We Love
(Ed. Jennifer Margulis, Seal Press, 2003)

"Thumbelina" in Child of Mine: Original Essays on Becoming a Mother
(Ed. Christina Baker Kline, Hyperion, 1997)

 

AND finally some old stuff: A couple of sample articles from my tenure at BabyZone.com...

The Story of Nandoo
High in the Himalayas, black eyes peer from a basket...

First You Puke
Why oh why do I feel so
GREEN?




All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
-- Federico Fellini

(c) Ericka Lutz, 2008

Photo: Susan Ito