I am an adoptive mom. My road to parenting includes years of infertility treatments and three different sets of birth families. The resources listed below represent some of the excellent resources I’ve found along the way. This isn’t anywhere close to an all-exhaustive list. There are so many good resources out there … this is [...]

MY AVOCATION I had been working as an environmental engineer for almost a year when I started writing my first novel. From 1996-2000, I worked on that manuscript, tweaking it more and more each night after work. Writing was my moonlighting job. My avocation. Unfortunately, there is a stigma about engineers. Engineers aren’t very creative. [...]