June 23, 2025

School’s Out Forever

“But because I am neither my protagonist nor a bad-ass, I ended up joining Parent Council just so nobody would think I was Mitzi Bytes (in spite of all the ways I obviously was), and due to many qualities that would eventually land me in therapy, I dove into school volunteerism like a maniac…” All readers can read my essay “School’s Out Forever,” a reflection on the last 12 years I’ve spent as part of my kids’ school community as we’re now in our final week there.

And my June essay for paid subscribers is out now, which begins, “Of all the authorial humblings I’ve experienced, having the autobiographical protagonist of my debut novel deemed generally unlikeable has been one of the more complicated to process.” Don’t miss “The Perils of Writing to Find Friends.”