I'll show myself out: essays on midlife and motherhood

The hero's journey --

The butterfly --

On the Starbucks bathroom floor --

Mom clothes --

The car seat --

An open love letter to Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent --

Underwear sandwich --

My future lesbian wife --

Listening to Beyoncé in the parking lot of Party City --

Somewhere over the rainbow --

Your husband will remarry five minutes after you die --

Talismans --

Bread and cheese --

Change of hands --

Hair --

Teddy Ruxpin --

Bad news --

In defense of drinking --

Eulogy for my feet --

Demon Halloween --

Little books --

The return.