2013

A Hug for Sally Draper

by Jen Doll

Sally, Sally, Sally, Sally. Sally. Oh, Sally. Our Sally. Little Sally Draper, or Sally Draper Who Once Was Little but now is, well, On the Verge of Grownup, 13 Going on 14 Going on 28.5, Sally Draper as played by the wonderful Kiernan Shipka, aged 14…

A Particular Kind of Self-Care: To a Year of Female Friendships

Diane Martel’s Eternal Teenage Party

by Celeste Ballard

52 Weeks of Us Weekly

by Bobby Finger

Sestina About Hangovers For a 25-Year-Old From a Person Over 40

Thank You, Dinosaur Erotica

I would like to salute the women who created dinosaur erotica this year. Most of the very short e-books are…

Wendy Davis’s Texas

by Susan Elizabeth Shepard

The Best and Last Time My Mother Subblogged Me

by Rebecca Greenfield

Last summer my mom sub-blogged me. A “sub-blog” — a term I may have just made up — falls into the same genre as subtweet, which, for those less versed in Twitter, is when a person tweets something mean…

Unto Thee, O Erykah! The Year I Found Badu

by Rebecca Scherm