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)
• Mixed Heritage (Greenhaven Press, 2009)

Essays

• This is My Daughter’s Mother for Huffington Post
• 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

Radio

• “Is Tin Tin Racist?” on Q with Jian Ghomeshi
• Open Adoption Panel with Jenna Hatfield, Brandy Hagelstein and Kris Faasse for Creating a Family

OpEd

• I’m a Pro-Choice Adoptive Parent
• The Brutal Reality of Interracial Adoption
• Child Welfare Issues at Polygamy Compound

Features

• The Myth of the Forever Family for Brain Child
• 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)