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Ona Gritz

Ona Gritz is the author of two children’s books, two collections of poetry, and a memoir. Her essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including The Utne Reader, MORE magazine, the Bellingham Review, and, most recently, The Truth of Memoir: How to Write about Yourself and Others with Honesty, Emotion, and Integrity by Kerry Cohen. Ona lives in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. Her son Ethan is a college freshman.

Contributions:

Calling Home

And Now The Boy Is 20

Calling Home

Red Chestnut

Calling Home

Maternal Instinct

Calling Home

Full Table, Not-So-Empty Nest

Calling Home

Parenting Time

Calling Home

Connection, Not Perfection

Calling Home

Calling Home

Doing it Differently

Practical Love

Doing it Differently

Don’t Mention It

Doing it Differently

Empty Nest, Day One

Doing it Differently

T-shirt Time Machine

Doing it Differently

Common Ground

Doing it Differently

What’s Turning in the World

Doing it Differently

After All This Time

Doing it Differently

Handling the Rejection

Doing it Differently

The Pause Button

Doing it Differently

The Price of Cool

Columns, Doing it Differently

Too Many Children

Columns, Doing it Differently

After Sandy

Columns, Doing it Differently

The House on Sunnyside Street

Doing it Differently

Gossip’s Girl

Doing it Differently

Forever Young

Doing it Differently

Every Mother’s Son

Doing it Differently

My Double Life

Doing it Differently

More Thursdays

Doing it Differently

At Home with a Teen

Doing it Differently

Unfinished Overseas

Doing it Differently

Staying a City Mouse

Doing it Differently

The Chapter on Being Fourteen

Doing it Differently

What Lies Beneath

Doing it Differently

You’re My Mom. I Love You. But That Doesn’t Mean I Want to Hang Out With You.

Doing it Differently

Guardian Angels of the Staircase

Doing it Differently

But, in Things. . .

Doing it Differently

The Bootlegged Path to San Marco

Doing it Differently

My Easy Child

Doing it Differently

Dinner for Three

Doing it Differently

Love Always From Ruth

Doing it Differently

It Takes a Village

Doing it Differently

Mothering the Muse

Doing it Differently

Legacy

Doing it Differently

A Raw Ordeal

Doing it Differently

Photographs and Memories

Doing it Differently

Same Difference

Doing it Differently

We Are Family

Doing it Differently

Meeting Hate Face to Face

Doing it Differently

Kitchen Table Judaism

Doing it Differently

Something Old/Something New

Poetry

The Muse Gets Angry Before Leaving for School

Doing it Differently

Guy Night

Doing it Differently

Imperfect Terms

Doing it Differently

Live at Maxwell’s

Doing it Differently

Rooting for the Home Team

Doing it Differently

The Sacred Nylabone of Now

Doing it Differently

Hail to the Chief

Doing it Differently

Our Houseful

Doing it Differently

Game Face

Doing it Differently

Happiness, Apparently, Is a Warm Gun

Doing it Differently

Puppy Love

Doing it Differently

Getting to Yes

Doing it Differently

Another Mama for Obama

Doing it Differently

Hello Muddah

Doing it Differently

Sweet Child of Mine

Doing it Differently

Reading on My Mother’s Behalf

Doing it Differently

Frida and Me

Doing it Differently

Life, Death, and Middle School

Poetry

Phases

Doing it Differently

Life in Parentheses

Doing it Differently

The Many Faces of Help

Doing it Differently

Still Life with Shoes

Doing it Differently

That Other Kind of Waking

Doing it Differently

Better a Diamond

Doing it Differently

Vistas

Doing it Differently

Difficult Terrain

Doing it Differently

The Part That Stays

Doing it Differently

Down the Basement Steps

Doing it Differently

The Formula For Letting Go

Doing it Differently

The Stepfather Question

Doing it Differently

Phasing Out the Honeymoon Phase

Doing it Differently

Noticeable

Doing it Differently

The Imagined Child

Poetry

This

Doing it Differently

Hair Envy

Doing it Differently

Facing the City

Doing it Differently

Raising the Ruling Class

Doing it Differently

Good Sports

Doing it Differently

Coming Home

Doing it Differently

Beautiful Things

Poetry

Home, I Say

Doing it Differently

Doing it Differently

Poetry

Nighttime in the Country of New Mothers

Poetry

The Night We Decide on Divorce

Poetry

The Impatient Mother

Poetry

Shared Custody

Poetry

Testing the Seams

Poetry

Family Bed

Poetry

Boy Child

Poetry

Mothering by Scent

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