Excerpt: This Boy We Made

The Cut

What It Takes to Get Support for a Black Boy With Special Needs

TIME

The Mystery of This Boy We Made

Romper

How Ice Cream Became My Own Personal Act of Resistance

TIME

My Child Was Vulnerable Long Before the Pandemic. But the Wait for a Vaccine Is Excruciating

TIME

Moving Forward

O Quarterly

Celebrating Black Success as a Family Teaches My Kids They Can Do Anything

Parents

To the Mom Friends Who Cry With Me After Bedtime

Romper

What We Know About My Son, Akira, and How I Live With What We Don’t

Romper

4 Moms on the Postpartum 'Flaws' That They Actually Love

Parents

Whiteness Can’t Save Us

Catapult

How Virginia’s Blackface Photos Make Me Again Wonder How Much to Tell My Kids

The Washington Post

Why My First-Grader Doesn’t Need a Whitewashed Plantation Field Trip

The Washington Post

What Genes Can’t Tell Us: A Column

Catapult

Should I Have a Mastectomy for My Children’s Sake?

The Cut

Talking to My Daughter About Charlottesville

Catapult

My Daughter Is the Reason I Wear My Hair Curly

The Washington Post

My Son’s Mystery Medical Condition and Our Family’s Brave New World

Narratively

Un-Thorned: Fear, Faith, and the Genes Between

The Toast

Big Mom on Campus: Raising Two Kids in a College Dorm

McSweeney’s 2012 Grand Prize Column Contest Winner