Journalism and Essays

Sweet Success: A Pennsylvania cookie company helps refugee women and their families start a new life in the United States, TIME for Kids, 2021
Designing for Clients with Kids on the Autism Spectrum: Experts share insights into how to serve your ASD clients best, Architectural Digest/AD Pro, 2021
Walking is Awesome: A new study says “awe walks” can do wonders for our well-being, TIME for Kids, 2021
Handwashing Helper: Billions of people are without running water and soap. Tippy taps can help them wash their hands, TIME for Kids, 2020
For the Birds: Millions of birds are killed each year by flying into glass. People can protect them with bird-friendly building design, TIME for Kids, 2020
Building Green: In Africa, recycled plastic trash is being turned into classrooms, TIME for Kids, 2020
Holding On to Hope: What happens when migrants arrive at the U.S.–Mexico border? TIME for Kids, 2019
Ready to Learn, TIME for Kids, 2019
Tough Choices: Why are people from Central America leaving their homeland for the United States? TIME for Kids, 2019
Faces of Honduras TIME for Kids, 2019
Landscape Designer Christopher Counts is Combatting Climate Change Architectural Digest/AD Pro, 2019
A London Firm Launches a “Colorful, Joyful” Project for Syrian Refugees and their Neighbors Architectural Digest/AD Pro, 2019
Meet the 2019 National Teacher of the Year TIME for Kids, 2019
American Flavor TIME for Kids, 2019
Let’s Make It Easier for Kids to Visit Incarcerated Parents The Marshall Project, 2019
Do-Good Dog TIME for Kids, 2019
Visiting Day A special program in California connects kids with their incarcerated parents, TIME for Kids, 2018
Safe in School: Education brings new hope to Rohingya refugees, TIME for Kids, 2018
Painting Their Story: Harnessing the power of art to help Rohingya refugees, TIME Edge, 2018
Family Connection: A California summer camp helps families stay close while a parent is in prison, TIME Edge, 2018
Live from Kakuma: Kakuma refugee camp, in Kenya, is the site of TEDxKakumaCamp. It is the first event if its kind to take place at a refugee camp, TIME for Kids, 2018
Kids of Kakuma: TFK travels to Kenya to learn what life is like for children at a refugee camp, TIME for Kids, 2018
Chris Bianco, ‘Pizza Yoda,’ is Sharing His Wisdom in a New Cookbook, He Is
NPR, 2017
Long Island’s Hockey-Beach-Sandwich Connection The New York Times, 2017
Water Works: The nonprofit group Water Is Life is doing its part to provide safe drinking water to communities around the world, TIME for Kids, 2017 [PDF]
When Art Conservation Means Repairing TVs, Not Canvases The New York Times, 2016
Cheap Fun in Central Park: Scaling Rat Rock The New York Times, 2016
A Dance Party Where Cowboy Attire Is Optional The New York Times, 2016
An Indoor Trampoline Park Offers Flips and Fitness in New York City The New York Times, 2016
Brooklyn Fish, Beware The New York Times, 2016
Between Two Covers at Twigg’s Bindery: You The New York Times, 2016
On Set: A writer reveals the internal journey of revision The Writer, 2016
2,000 Ways to Say ‘Buenos Dias’ The New York Times, 2016
Under the Sea: Sylvia Earle is on a mission to protect the world’s oceans, TIME for Kids, 2016 [PDF]
Apple Art Supplies in Brooklyn is Hub for Matte Knives and Gossip The New York Times, 2016
Schmidt’s Candy, a Sweet Spot in Queens The New York Times, 2016
Chapters in Time: A forest is growing in Norway. In 99 years, it will be turned into pages for an unusual book, TIME for Kids, 2015 [PDF]
I didn’t think I wanted kids but cancer forced me to decide Quartz, 2015
Helping Turtles: Last year, more sea turtles than usual washed up on Massachusetts beaches. People stepped up to help, TIME for Kids, 2015 [PDF]
Picnic in the Yard The New Yorker, 2014
3 Things You Might Not Know About Moonshine Serious Eats, 2014
Is the E-Cigarette Bubble About to Burst?: Now that e-cigarettes have become a hot start-up market, is Washington about to send the industry up in smoke? Washingtonian, 2014
Bill And Ted’s and My Excellent Adventure: On the stoner classic’s 25th anniversary, an extra from the movie goes back in time and realizes how spending a few days in a mall with Keanu Reeves altered her own history, BuzzFeed, 2014
Burn: The tale of an Arizona forest fire, the prison inmates who died fighting it, and the families who struggled for justice, The Delacorte Review, 2013
Kill Me Now: The Troubled Life and Complicated Death of Jana Van Voorhis, BuzzFeed  (co-published with The Delacorte Review) 2013
Feathered Friends: A New York City group helps birds and other wildlife, TIME for Kids, 2013 [PDF]
The Evolving State of Physician-Assisted Suicide The Atlantic, 2012
Saving the Nautilus: The chambered nautilus is one of Earth’s oldest animals. Now, scientists say it may be in danger, TIME for Kids, 2012 [PDF]
Wild Things: Dutch artist Theo Jansen mixes science and art to create magical moving creatures, TIME for Kids, 2011 [PDF]
I Am an Art Conservator TIME for Kids, 2010 [PDF]
Goodbye, Books?: A school in Massachusetts has gotten rid of most of its library books. Now the collection is online. School leaders say it’s the way of the future, TIME for Kids, 2009 [PDF]
Filmmaker Catherine Gund Teaches Her Kids Where Food Comes From Edible Manhattan, 2009
Nature’s Way: Freight trains rumbled above the streets of Manhattan, in New York City, for nearly 50 years. When the tracks were abandoned, nature took over. Now, the High Line is about to become a public park, TIME for Kids, 2009 [PDF]
Take a Deep Breath: Kids learn ways to calm the mind, TIME for Kids, 2008 [PDF]
What the Kids Are Eating: A Food Education, Edible Brooklyn, 2007
Move Over, Cheesecake: A Southern baker has made red-velvet cake Brooklyn’s favorite three-layer treat, Saveur, 2006 [PDF]