Marion Winik is the author of Above Us Only Sky, Telling, First Comes Love, The Lunch-Box Chronicles: Notes from the Parenting Underground, and Rules for the Unruly: Living an Unconventional Life. A regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered since 1991, her essays and articles have appeared in Redbook, Self, Cosmopolitan, and many other publications. After twenty years in Austin, Texas, she now lives in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, with her husband and children.