thiswomanswork : MyBlogHer Profile

I have been writing professionally since 1999. In that time my byline has appeared in Salon.com (where my essay about my daughter’s adoption was chosen as an Editor’s Pick for 2006 and was reprinted in Adoptive Families); Brain Child (my essay “You’re Not the Boss of Me” about non-coercive parenting was reprinted in both Utne and Ode); Parenting, Yoga Journal, Wondertime, Adoptive Families, Bitch: A Feminist Response to Pop Culture and Greater Good. My Salon.com essay also appears as “Sharing Madison” in Rebecca Walker’s upcoming anthology One Big Happy Family (Riverhead Press, 2009). My essay, “Someone Else’s Shoes”, which is about the way blogging impacted my adoption experience, appears in the book Mothering and Blogging: Theory and Practice (Demeter Press, 2009). I have been blogging at this woman’s work since 2001. I also own and operate Open Adoption Support, a social networking site for families and individuals who support openness in adoption.

Something that might surprise you about me: I used to write book reviews for Hooters Magazine under the pen name David Fried.