Consumer Clips
Books
- One Big Happy Family edited by Rebecca Walker (Kirkus Starred Review)
- Mothering and Blogging edited by May Friedman & Shana L. Calixte
- Child Adoption: Issues and Perspectives (Icfai University Press, 2009)
Essays
- Textured for Brain Child
- Open Adoption, Broken Heart for Salon.com (voted Best of 2006)
- Free to Be Me in Utne (originally “You’re Not the Boss of Me” in Brain Child; also reprinted in Ode)
- The Busiest Girl in the World (syndicated from The Ohio Moms Blog)
- Falling in Love essay for ePregnancy, featured on Amazon.com
- Reluctant Groupiess in Bitch Magazine
- Naming Madison in Adoptive Families
OpEd
- I’m a Pro-Choice Adoptive Parent
- The Brutal Reality of Interracial Adoption
- Child Welfare Issues at Polygamy Compound
Features
- Stop! Calm Down! Think! for Greater Good
- Land of the Big Coasters for Disney’s Family.com
- Forgive Yourself in Yoga Journal
- A Conversation with Vielka McFarlane for HotChalk
- Adoption for Disney’s ParentPedia
- Is it Safe? for Disney’s ParentPedia
- Complications for Disney’s ParentPedia
- 10 Tips for Flying with a Baby for Disney’s Family.com
- 10 Tips for Traveling with Toddlers: Getting There for Disney’s Family.com
- 10 Tips for Traveling with Toddlers: Being There for Disney’s Family.com
- Can Your Marriage Survive Infertility? for ePregnancy
- Growing Up Tween for Playthings Magazine
- Quiverfull Convicted for The New Homemaker
Shorts
- A Fascination with Boxes for Disney’s Wondertime
- A Fascination with Stickers for Disney’s Wondertime
- The Silent Type for Parenting
- Expelled from Preschool for Parenting
- CommonSenseMedia Book Reviews
Blogging Gigs & Features
- Ohio Moms Blog
- Love Isn’t Enough (formerly AntiRacist Parent)
- Shareable.net: How to Throw a Used Toy Exchange
- Bitch.com: A Feminist Take on the Adoption Industry
- The Night My World Caved In featured on BlogNosh
- Work It, Mom: Jealousy in Open Adoption
- Work It, Mom: Changing Expectations
- Work It, Mom: How Our Family Came to Be
Speaking Gigs
- The Fuse Factory (ongoing workshop leader specializing in blogs and digital storytelling)
- Open Adoption Promises and Truth: American Adoption Congress (2009)
- Creating a Grassroots Online Support Site: American Adoption Congress (2008)
- Encountering New Worlds of Adoption: 2nd International Conference on Adoption and Culture (2007)