Personal essays

“The Gun that Exploded My Marriage” | Open Secrets Magazine (January 2026)

“Once More to Wire Lake” | Deep Wild Journal 2023 (hard copy only; original available here), also first-place winner in the Cowiche Canyon Conservancy Nature's Storyteller Awards (2024)

Flying solo in the Turku archipelago | Bookends Review (October 2022)

I’m looking for a campervan, not another man | The Globe and Mail (June 2021)

To the guy who saved us from sleeping in our car | Off Assignment (August 2019)

My Mother-In-Law Was Like a Second Mom, and Then I Got Divorced | Sammiches & Psych Meds (January 2019)

Am I too old for him? | The Globe and Mail (November 2017)

Novels

BreakupBabe: A Novel | Ballantine Books (2006)

Blogs

The Ambivalent Part-Time Expat (this blog!), winner of an honorable mention in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists contest, in the online humor category (2022).

Breakup Babe: Collector’s Edition

Breakup Babe (the original blog)

Stories for kids

Hazel down the rabbit hole (gold medal winner in the Florida Authors and Publishers Association Book Awards) |Pioneer Valley Books (September 2021)

Hazel down the rabbit hole (original version)| Cricket Magazine (May 2020) (PDF)

Spoken word & podcasts

Under the illusion | Recording of my 7-minute story at a Fresh Ground Stories event in Seattle, (July 2018)

Amateur Traveler podcast - Award-winning travel blogger and podcaster Chris Christensen interviewed me about southern Baja travel in Baja California Sur Road Trip (Mexico) (Podcast) (amateurtraveler.com) (or wherever you get your podcasts!) Episode 853, June 17, 2023.

Travel

Pristine Paddle: venturing into the rugged wilderness of Glacier Bay |Alaska Airlines Magazine, February (2009) (PDF)

Mt. Rainier Journal | Lonely Planet Seattle, 2004 (PDF)

Profiles

Word Finder: Searching for new terms, a new language | Profile of writer Charles Johnson, Alaska Airlines Magazine (1994) (PDF)