Athena’s Head Archive

• Hermit Writers and AR Haters: Send Me Your Feedback
• TW’s New Issue: “Distraction”
• Why I Took a Vacation From Blogging
• Boston Pride: Kids, Be Brave
• Lilacs for My Mother
• Boston Lockdown
• Boston: Did I Say Too Much?
• Review of “The Mothers” on CSM
• Taylor Swift, Feminist
• Read My “Top Chef” Piece on BlogHer
• Top Surprise: Top Chef Does Adoption Right
• My Inner Blizzard
• My Anti-Boredom Formula
• Why Did Peter Jackson’s “Hobbit” Make Me Cry?
• Zombie Emily + My Next Magazine Writing Class
• Art + Commerce: Notes from the Boston Book Festival 2012
• Martha Takes on the Digital Future
• Why a Pretentious Movie About Writers Is Worth Seeing
• Sept/Oct 2012 at Talking Writing
• The Power of Disappointment
• Pompous Mompus
• Read Martha’s Review of “Quiet”
• Introverts Are Always Busy—and That’s a Good Thing
• I Miss Nora Ephron!
• Serious Aliens! The Trouble with Sci-Fi at the New Yorker
• My Crusade Against Multitasking
• Why Travel?
• Home from Singapore
• Be Careful When You Say “Exotic”
• The Trouble with Affluent Kids
• Martha in Singapore
• Happy Year of the Dragon!
• New Singapore Column
• Note to Caitlin: Joan Didion Is Not Your BFF
• TW New Issue: Jan/Feb 2012
• Why Reading Novels on My Kindle Scares Me
• Call for Athena Images
• Is There Too Much Food Writing?
• Adoption on TV: Modern Family or Parenthood?
• Was Steve Jobs Really Insanely Great?
• Rolling Stone: Why Don’t I Love You Anymore?
• Sometimes You Have to Teach Yourself
• Istanbul: Or How I Fell Under a Novel’s Spell
• Why I’m Sick of Mommy Writing—even by Tina Fey
• Letter to My Son, Ten Years Later
• The New Library: What We Gain and Lose
• Why Blogging Is Better than a Hollywood Therapist
• Why David Brooks Gets the Meaning of Life Wrong
• My Muse Rides Shotgun with David Bowie
• Should I Share My Child’s Inner World?
• Desolation Row
• Lady Cher: My Favorite Tramp and Po-Mo Thief
• Why Art Matters
• My Quest to Make the Perfect Pie
• Anger, My Old Friend: Where Did You Go?
• Funeral for a Tablecloth
• Imagining My Family: The Birth of Baby Jesusaurus
• The Kids Are All Right: The Trouble with the Lost 1970s
• The Last Wordbender Battles the Lord of Bad Writing
• Mean Girls: Worse Than They Used to Be?
• Rude, Rude, Rude: The Trouble with Egalitarianism
• Why Toy Story Made Me Cry
• For Dad: I Know What Poetry Can Do
• Do Novels Still Matter?
• Hawks in the City: Reflections on the Urban Zoo
• Read to Your Children Until They’re Twenty
• Eldercare and Ice Cream: Sweet Life
• Wikipedia: Good or Evil?
• International Adoption: Why I Don’t Believe in Fate
• Chaos Theory for Parents: Kids, Toys, and Messes
• Aunt Joy: In Praise of Godmothers
• Adoption “Truths”: Be Careful About What You Say in Print
• What Are Libraries For?
• I’m a Klutz, Mr. Spock, Not a Bricklayer
• Neutering His Book: Mental Illness in the Family
• Editing My Father’s Poems
• Celebration: Proust Meets Kool and the Gang
• The "Perfect Guests": Who Would You Be If You Walked Away from Your Life?
• Writing Boundaries—When Do I Cross Them?
• For 2010: Let’s Decrease Our Specific Gravity
• Election Day: John Woolman and the True Meaning of Liberty
• Is Cuteness Trendy? Sour Grapes from Vanity Fair
• Map of My World—or Why I’ve Fallen off the Edge
• Am I Crazy to Study Vietnamese?
• I Don’t Mind Being Named Martha Anymore
• "I’ve Got the Most Scathingly Brilliant Idea": When Do Writers Need to Let Go—or Not?
• How to Discourage Young Readers: Turn Books Into Numbers
• Oh California…I’m Not Coming Home
• Family Vacation? Help! Cries Mom, Send Moose and Squirrel!
• Seven-Year-Olds Don’t Get Star Trek
• For Shame
• "What’s My Heritage?" International Adoptions and the Culture Debate