Online Publications

• "My Mother of Dragons," Relief Journal blog, October 2018
• "A Meager Offering for the Heartbroken," Ruminate Magazine blog, September 2018
• "Tahlequah's Grief," Good Letters, September 2018
• "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's Hidden Identity," Good Letters, January 2018
• "Live Like the Mountain Is Out," Key Peninsula News, January 2018
• "Thanksgiving in a Box," Key Peninsula News, November 2017
• "Don't Climb Every Mountain," Key Peninsula News, September 2017
• "As Petals Fall," Good Letters, July 2017
• "Whale Wishing," Key Peninsula News, June 2017
• "How to Guilt Other into Devoting Their Lives to You: A Guide for Women," Funny in Five Hundred, May 2016 
• "Budget Friendly Do-It-Yourself Bath and Kitchen Transformations" Key Peninsula News, April 2017
•  "The Power of Peanut Butter" Key Pen News, April 2017
• "Beating the Winter Blues" Key Peninsula News, Dec. 16
• "Good Letters Is My Devotional"  Good Letters, Dec. 16
• "Misdirection" Key Peninsula News, Sept. 16
• "Canning Tomatoes" Referential Magazine, Summer 2016
• "Impounded by Poetry" Good Letters, May 2016
• "I Wauna Call It Home," Key Peninsula News, May 2016
• "Crushed" Fredericksburg Literary & Art Review, p. 90, May 2016
• "Shedding My Skin" Relief, May 2016
• "Impressions of a Family" A Lonely Riot, May 2016
• "My Mother's Big Life" Birch Gang Review, Spring 2016
• "Prayer for the Shattered World" Altarwork, December 2015
• "A Homeless Faith" Altarwork, July 2015
• "Other Mothers Aren't Like This" Under the Sun June 2015 (Best American Essay nominee)
• "The Betty Crocker Affair" Dialogual, June 4, 2015
• "Set in Stone" BioStories, p. 120, May 2015
• "The Real Scoop On Celebrity" Taylor Univ. English Dept. Blog, March 2015
• "Mother Comes in Handy" Riding Light Review, Halloween Horror Issue Oct. 2014
• "My Big Bang Theory" Good Letters, November 2014
• "The Gluten-Free Body of Christ" AltarWork, Fall 2014
• "Songs Dead Men Sing" Good Letters, September 2014
• "A Christian Writer Drops the F-Bomb" Good Letters, July 2014
• "My POW Bracelet" VietNow, Summer 2014
• Book Review "Rescuing Julia Twice" The Mom Egg Review
• "Avoiding the Mirror" Good Letters, May 2014
• "The Next-Door Neighbors" Sleet, Spring 2014
• "Dear Lt. Colonel" Tell Us a Story
• "Dead Man's Float" Magical Teaching
• "Dead Man's Float" Deltona Howl
• "Falling Upward: Don Draper Meets Richard Rohr" Good Letters, Aug. 2013
• "Love Thy Neighbor...and Her Lice" Good Letters, April 2013
• "A Matched Pair of Restraining Orders" Good Letters, Feb. 2013
• "Privy: Seeing a Teacher's Home" Magical Teaching Feb. 2013
• "I Am the Guest Educator" Magical Teaching Jan. 2013
• "Praying for Words" The Other Journal, January 2013
• "Footwashing for First Graders" Magical Teaching, November 2013
• "The Summer I Wasn't Attacked by a Shark" Good Letters, July 2012
• "Weeds" Verdad, Spring 2008
• "Hopscotch" Apple Valley Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 2007
• "On How To Abandon Your Toddler at 7-11" Bookshop Santa Cruz short story award, 2007 
• "California Redemption Value" R-C-V-R-Y Journal, Summer 2005
• "Waiting For the 17" Tattoo Highway #7, 2003
• "The Painter is Here" Tattoo Highway, 2002
• "Applied Material Science" Sugar Mule #11, June 2002

Print Publications

• "Rosie's Cafe," Creative Colloquy Vol. 4, December 2017
• "Any Minute Now" Creative Colloquy Vol. 2, December 2015
• "A House of Cards and The Power of Now" Oneing, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2014
• "Henrietta" Porter Gulch Review, 2010 p. 28 (online pdf)
• "Art of the Jelly Belly" Amoskeag Review 2007
• "Cheryl, Managing" Broken Bridge Review, 2007
• "The White Space Between Blue Lines" PMS #6,  Spring 2006, Pushcart Prize nominee
• "My Life in the Pen" Porter Gulch Review 2005 p. 113 (online pdf)
• "The Road to Jesus" Steam Ticket, Spring 03
• "If I Were Van Gogh's Girlfriend, He'd Still Have Both Ears" Water~Stone, V. 5, 2002
• After Words" Porter Gulch Review, 2002 p. 55 (online pdf)
• "Your Hands" Drexel Online Journal 2002 (pdf)
• "A Brief History of Pantyhose" Drexel Online Journal 2001 (pdf)
•  "Getting Over You" Porter Gulch Review 2000 p. 3 (online pdf)

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Anthologies

• "On How To Abandon Your Toddler at 7-11" California Prose Directory, 
• "Watered By the Spirit"  Archipelago
• Poetry, Courageous Spirit: Voices from Women in Ministry
• "I Knew All Along" Not What I Expected: The Unpredictable Road from Womanhood to Motherhood
• Poetry, Rhythm & Fire: Experiencing the Holy in Community & Solitude
• "Will the Swimming Pool Turn Red?" Woman. Period.
• ​The Upper Room Disciplines––A Book of Daily Devotions 2011