A native of LA, I migrated to the NW nearly 20 years ago. I've been a child therapist specializing in children birth to 5 years old and internationally adopted children. I'm a mom of two grown children (21 and 30 years old); married. I split my time between Seattle and Port Townsend.

My book is Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child from your first hours together through the teen years (2008, Harvard Common Press). I've written numerous articles and essays, many of which appear on my web site. I've written humor and political commentary for community papers in Seattle. Currently I am working on both personal essays and poetry anchored in both the nature I find around me and family experiences, both past and present.
I'm about to start my first blog.