SELECTED WRITING

FICTION
- “Parents Weekend” (short story) Belmont Story Review
- “The Other Fathers” (short story) The Tishman Review
- “The Point of View Character” (short story) Philadelphia Stories
- “No Ear for Languages” (short story) Bosque Journal
NONFICTION
- “On Luck” (essay) Violinist.com, Kelly Writers House, NY
- “Never Mind Talent” (essay) Philadelphia Inquirer
- “Talking About Guns” (essay) Philadelphia Inquirer
POETRY
- “Binocular” The Philadelphia Inquirer
- “Narcolepsy,” and “The Cartoon Cat Speaks,” Superstition Review
SATIRE
- Philadelphia Couple With Spider Sense Takes Web Design to New Heights, Medium
- The Sisterhood of the Disappearing Crones, LOLComedy
- Trump Shocks Winter Sports Community with Updates to Olympic Biathlon Rules, The Satirist
OTHER
- A Conversation with William Parberry
- A Fresh Approach To Food
- A Story-Winning Prize
- Adjusting the Focus (Cold Mountain Opera)
- Art Sustains An Elkins Park Jewel
- Brave New Voices
- Coming Full Circle
- Harmonic Convergence
- Material World
- Mentorship Essay
- Mimi Stillman Profile
- Poetry in Superstition Review
- The Critical Circus
- The Outsider Who Wouldn’t Take NO

VIOLINISTS.COM
A Parents’ Guide to Conservatory Auditions is published on the international music site, Violinist.com. The series cover issues of interest to anyone auditioning artist or parent of an artist. Other Violinist.com parenting columns can be located below.
A PARENTS' GUIDE TO CONSERVATORY AUDITIONS
Part 1: Take Your Vitamins
Part 2: Strategies
Part 3: Trial Lessons
Part 4: Rejection
Part 5: Reach, Match, Safety
Part 6: Other Parents
Part 7: Location, Location, Location
Part 8: I Flunked My Prescreens–Now What?
Part 9: Talent Loves Company
Part 10: Being Good At Being Uncomfortable
Part 11: Winter, Audition-Style
Part 12: Going Solo
Part 13: Luck
Part 14: Social Media
Part 15: After the Audition
Part 16: On Cockeyed Optimism
Part 17: How Do You Pay For It?
Part 18: Cost of Attendance
Part 19: How Do you Pay for It? (Reprise)
Part 20: On Waiting
Part 21: Waitlisted, Now What?
Part 22: Appealing Financial Aid
Part 23: Letting Go
Part 24: Commencement
Part 25: Ranking the Rankings
PARENTING COLUMNS
Part 1: The Great Decision
Part 2: Talent Education
Part 3: The Violin Addiction
Part 4: The Cicadas
Part 5: Getting’ There
Part 6: The Clock on the Table
Part 7: Hell is Other Parents
Part 8: The Late-Blooming Flower
Part 9: But I Played it Perfectly At Home
Part 10: In The Bleak Midwinter
Part 11: A Tale of Two Quartets
Part 12: The Birth-Order Theory
Part 13: On Thinking About Polar Bears
Part 14: Talking About Talking Practice
Part 15: The Bow
Part 16: Chromesthesia
Part 17: Joyce DiDonato: Four Truths for Young Artists
Part 18: Summer Music Camps
Part 19: Do What Scares You
Part 20: Are Summer Programs Worth It?
Part 21: Thinking About Elephants (Ivory)
Part 22: Bad Behavior
Part 23: Contractor or Collaborator?
Part 24: Busking for Life
Part 25: Poor Yorick and the Viola
Part 26: When School Makes Life Impossible
Part 27: Tweeting Beethoven
Part 28: When Pigs Fly…But Musical Instruments Don’t
Part 29: Ban iPads, Not kids, From the Concert Hall
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