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January 2018

January 31, 2018

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Hidden Identity

My annual family Christmas letter swelled from a single paragraph into a sixteen-page spread before...

August 2017

August 22, 2017

Susan B. Anthony: Failure is Impossible

Just a few miles from my home in Rochester, NY, is the house where Susan...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

Anne Fontaine’s The Innocents

After World War II devastated eastern Europe, the Red Army pushed into the countries allotted...

February 14, 2017

Weddings, Women, Sweets, and Wishes

My heirloom cookbook was born during a Washington D.C. snowstorm in February of what was...

February 08, 2017

Literacy Class: Learning the Language of Love

By D.L. Mayfield. This past week, I taught my last English class for quite some...

December 2016

December 20, 2016

Kathleen Wakefield’s Invisible Stenographer

You’ve got to meet this character. She’s a stenographer by trade: From the outset she...

October 2016

October 11, 2016

Art, Icons, and Ant Ovaries

“A world created out of silence gives itself over to prayer.” I’m listening to local...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

In the Company of Women, Part II

By Jeffrey Overstreet Continued from yesterday. “You’re the sort of man who can’t know anyone...

August 24, 2016

In the Company of Women, Part I

By Jeffrey Overstreet In late July of 1992, Batman Returns ruled the box office. I...

December 2015

December 23, 2015

Repression, Oppression, Suppression: A Life of Domestic Routine

Somewhere in the middle of Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, the eponymous...

October 2015

October 02, 2015

Wonder Woman, Flying, Part 2: Beauty and Sacrament

Continued from yesterday. In this scene from Batman’s first meeting with Wonder Woman in Trinity,...

October 01, 2015

Wonder Woman, Flying, Part 1: Transcendent Hope

It’s one of my favorite images of Diana of Themyscira, a.k.a. Wonder Woman: her proud,...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

Sexist Assumptions and the Difficult, Dirty Work of Grace

My husband was deep into a bathroom remodeling project when he asked me to stop...

April 20, 2015

My Mother, My Daughter, Myself

My daughter Anna Maria was born on Orthodox Easter Sunday—Pascha—six years ago. That year, the...

January 2015

January 09, 2015

Wearing a Coat of Many Colors

Around eight years ago, I bought a coat. I hardly ever bought brand-new clothes, and...

December 2014

December 16, 2014

The Regrettably Pretty Shoes: A St. Louis Story

Guest post by Linda Wendling I love St. Louis. I love Ferguson. My whole family...

October 2014

October 20, 2014

Hannah Graham and a Silence too Loud

It was forty degrees this morning when I got into my car. The back window...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

These Boots Are Made For…Beauty

Guest Post by Tania Runyan I’m washing dishes while my third-grade daughter and her friend...

December 18, 2013

Sleeping Beauty, Part 2

Today’s post, an excerpt from Pieces of Someday: One Woman’s Search for Meaning in Lawyering,...

December 17, 2013

Sleeping Beauty, Part 1

Today’s post is an excerpt from Pieces of Someday: One Woman’s Search for Meaning in...

May 2013

May 23, 2013

Why We Can’t Look Away

The morning I learned about the women in Cleveland, I knew from a single headline...

April 2013

April 24, 2013

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Well, somebody at Good Letters had to do it: Somebody had to go buy the...

April 09, 2013

She Will Not Live a Small Life

And all were guests. —Naomi Shihab Nye, “Arabic Coffee” The first thing that struck me...

January 2013

January 25, 2013

Advice for My Little Sister

Twelve years passed, almost to the day, between my birth and the birth of my...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

In the Company of Women, Part 2

“You’re the sort of man who can’t know anyone intimately, least of all a woman.”...

July 30, 2012

In the Company of Women, Part 1

This two-part post is dedicated to the summertime brides of Good Letters. Congratulations to Allison...

June 2012

June 05, 2012

Weddings, Women, Sweets, and Wishes

My heirloom cookbook was born during a Washington D.C. snowstorm in February of what was...