Since 2005 I've been blogging on politics and parenting for The Huffington Post. I am also an award-winning journalist whose
articles and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times Sunday magazine, Salon,
Ladies’ Home Journal, Family Circle, Health, and Los Angeles magazine, among
numerous other publications. I am a contributor to the 2008 Seal Press
anthology, “The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of
Motherhood and Social Change,” edited by Shari MacDonald Strong. My essays
have also appeared in the two bestselling collections, “Mothers Who Think:
Tales of Real-Life Parenthood,” and “A Cup of Comfort for Mothers and
Daughters.” I am currently working on a memoir about my brain-damaged
mother. 

Since 2004, I have been an instructor in the highly acclaimed
Writers Program at UCLA Extension.