SELECTED ESSAYS
Dating K-Drama Style
Los Angeles Times, December 9, 2022
The Simplicity Project: Exercises in elective deprivation
Psychology Today, March / April 2020
Is 50 the New 40?
Jewish Journal, March 7, 2018
Aging and the Meaning of Life
Jewish Journal, January 24, 2018
A Divorcee’s Shabbat: Less Married More Jewish
The Forward, March 30, 2016
My 20 Percent Husband
Psychology Today, January 5, 2016
Why I Traveled 3,000 Miles to Get to Temple
Zocalo, October 18, 2013
How to Finally Get Along with Your Spouse: Get divorced
Quartz, June 3, 2013
Happily Ever After We Split
The New York Times, June 1, 2012
Next Time Under the Chuppah
Jewish Week, May 15, 2012
In the Grip of Nature’s Own Form of Birth Control
The New York Times, November 26, 2006
Bucking Wedding Conventions Except for One
The New York Times, May 15, 2005
REVIEWS & OPINION
From Fact to Fiction, with Fried Chicken: A Conversation with KJ Dell’Antonia
Los Angeles Review of Books, January 5, 2021
If marijuana is essential during the coronavirus shutdown, why not books?
Los Angeles Times, March 31, 2020
What You Buy Can Change the World
Jewish Journal, January 23, 2019
I spent a Sunday at California’s Largest Immigrant Detention Center
Los Angeles Times, October 22, 2018
Not Raging Against the Dying of the Light: Review of Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich
Los Angeles Review of Books, June 7, 2018
Why I Miss Flirting
Jewish Journal, November 8, 2018
The Divorce Guide: How the U.S. legal system screws poor parents
Quartz, May 5, 2015
The Gweneth Effect: Why we hate seeing people have good divorces
Quartz, September 19, 2014
ARTICLES
New Funding for Old Age: Grantmakers in Aging Shares New Growth
Inside Philanthropy, August 24, 2022
“Getting Money Into People’s Hands: The Vetted Direct Giving of L.A.’s The Change Reaction
Inside Philanthropy, June 16, 2022
Tricky Terrain: New Israel Fund navigates Political and Generational Change
Inside Philanthropy, February 26, 2019
A Mighty Grant
Inside Philanthropy, March 23, 2018
Artist Turns Love of Light into Project for Africans
Jewish Journal, March 21, 2018
The Joy of Neon
Jewish Journal, February 14, 2018
Why We Want Who We Want
Psychology Today, March 24, 2018
Uber for Divorce? These Startups are Bringing DYI Divorces to the Masses
The New York Observer, February 3, 2016
The New Cancer Survivors
Psychology Today, March 2015
Destination Divorces are Turning Heartbreaks into Holidays
Quartz, April 9, 2015