Personal Essays
Newsweek, Summer 2007
“Seeing a Smile I Never Knew Existed”
I never understood what drew my autistic sibling to the Pentecostal church. Then I went with him.
Plate Magazine online, January 2015
“It Takes a Village to Braise a Brisket”
From savory to sweet to beer-soaked, everyone thinks they know the secret to braising a brisket.