Writing

Writing by Jessica Claire Haney

Essays

• “My Long Climb Out of Chronic Lyme” – Healthy Women
• “Yes, I Want My White Kids Challenged to Question Their Privilege”– Huffington Post
• “Remembering the Uncle My Children Will Never Know” – Scary Mommy
• “Seeing is Believing” – Birth Writes: A Collection of Real-Life Birth Stories.
• “(Into and) Out of the Mouths of Babes” and “From Here to There” – Have Milk, Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding
• “The First Time Around” – From the Heart: A Collection of Stories and Poems from the Front Lines of Parenting
• “Attemptus Interruptus,” Exhale Magazine
• “Caring for Your Inner Child,” Journal of Attachment Parenting International
• “My Name is … What?” Motherverse Blog
• Jessica’s essays on Medium
  • Live From Here got me through a separation. Then it got canceled.
  • What if your kids suck at Mother’s Day?
  • Unpredictability: The only sure thing about pandemic parenting
  • How the Indigo Girls broke Facebook but soothed 60,000 hearts

Fiction

• “Rescue” – Delmarva Review 15
• “Under Construction” – Gargoyle 74
• “Navigating” – Grace in Darkness: D.C. Metro Women Writers, vol. VIII
  • Read this interview about “Navigating”
• “Out of Scale” – Abundant Grace: D.C. Metro Women Writers, vol. VII

The two stories in the Paycock Press Grace & Gravity series and the story in Gargoyle 74 are adapted from my novel, The Unspeakable Passing of Clouds, for which I’m currently seeking representation.

Articles

• “5 Ways to Help Kids Connect with Nature” – Washington FAMILY Magazine
• “The Benefits of Craniosacral Therapy” – Washington FAMILY Magazine
• “Nat Geo Gender Revolution Documentary is a Must-See,” TheDCMoms.com
• “Labor Day Rallies Call for ‘Improving Birth,'” Mothering.com
• “Alexandria Symphony Children’s Arts Festival Celebrates Harlem Renaissance,” Alexandria Patch
• “Birth Advocates Strategize for Decreased Maternal Mortality,” Leesburg Patch
• “Smithsonian’s Hirshorn Museum Nurse-In Draws Large Crowd” Mothering.com
• “NIH says remove barriers to VBAC,” Mothering Magazine
• “Classical Music for Little Fingers and Ears,” The Washington Post
• “Fizzy’s Lunch Lab a Little Fuzzy on Nutrition” – Hartke is Online!
• “Freecycle: Fast, Frugal, Friendly,” The Wise Mom, Holistic Moms Network

Multiple articles on healthy living and mindful parenting my lifestyle magazine for natural-minded parents in Metro DC, Mindful Healthy Life

Interviews

• “Director of Birth Story on Mothering While Filmmaking: Interview with Sara Lamm” – Mothering.com
• “Sustainable Farmer and Author Forrest Pritchard on Parenting” – TheDCMoms.com
• “Weekend Workshop to Show a New Way of Life for a New Year: Interview with Claudia Welch” – TheDCMoms.com
• “Author Katrina Kenison Comes to DC Yoga Studio” – TheDCMoms.com

Poetry

• “Remains” – Washington Writers’ Publishing House
• “Pace” and “Eleven One” – Written in Arlington anthology
• “Spring Sestina for a Teen Mother” – Porcupine Literary (nominated for Best of the Net)
• “#23a. HOW DID THIS PERSON USUALLY GET TO WORK LAST WEEK?” – Beltway Poetry Quarterly
• “Convex/Concave” – Literary Mama Blog
• “White Male” – Hip Mama
• “Invitation to My Brother” – Earth’s Daughters
• “Fitting Form” – Court Green
• “Taking it In, and Out” – Exhale Magazine and “Cesarean Voices” Exhibit sponsored by the Baltimore Chapter of the International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN)

Appearances

For links to television appearances, readings and other events where I have spoken, see the Appearances page.

Blogs

I’ve written hundreds of posts on natural living, holistic parenting and family wellness on Mindful Healthy Life, the lifestyle magazine for natural-minded parents in Metro DC I founded in 2014.

My personal blog is Crunchy-Chewy Mama.

I also blogged at TheDCMoms.com.

I wrote the column “Reading Ingredients for Healthy Living” at The Washington Times Communities Health and Science section 2009-2013