I have written for Salon.com (where my essay was chosen as an Editor’s Pick for 2006); Brain Child (my essay “You’re Not the Boss of Me” was reprinted in both Utne and Ode); Huffington Post, Parenting, Yoga Journal, Wondertime, Adoptive Families, Bitch: A Feminist Response to Pop Culture and Greater Good among many others. My essays appear in Joanne Bombarger’s Mother’s of Intention (Bright Sky Press, 2011), Rebecca Walker’s anthology One Big Happy Family (Riverhead Press, 2009), Mothering and Blogging (Demeter Press, 2009) edited by May Friedman & Shana L. Calixte and the textbooks Child Adoption: Issues and Perspectives (Icfai University Press, 2009) and Mixed Heritage (Greenhaven Press, 2009). I am the co-founder of Support for Special Needs, a social networking site for families raising children with special needs. I also created the site Open Adoption Support for individuals and families who are committed to openness in adoption.

I recently ceased blogging at ThisWomansWork.com after more than ten years and thousands of updates (the domain now houses my tumblr). My blog was featured in Time Magazine, the Washington Times, About.com’s Parenting section, About.com’s Adoption section, Ms. Magazine’s site and was voted “best adoption blog” on TheBump.com. I was honored as a Parenting Magazine Must Read Mom at the 2010 BlogHer convention in NYC and as one of the 50 top parenting bloggers for 2010 by Babble.com. It was a good decade.

I am represented by the Doris S. Michaels Literary Agency and I am studying for my masters in community counseling at the University of Dayton.