Latest Entry in Notes and Grace Notes November contest
Check out my latest personal essay, Brava, Baby Diva, entered in the Creative Nonfiction category of the November Notes and Grace Notes monthly writing contest. This is a light-hearted piece about my four year-old daughter's unexpected love of opera. Please feel free to read and rate the piece. No registration is required and readers' ratings help determine monthly winners.

The great...and not so great
Today, we celebrated our Forever Family Day, the 3-year anniversary of the day we adopted the most amazing, beautiful, and brilliant little girl in the world - Jade Chun'an. She was nearly two years old and was part of the Waiting Child China program for children with special medical needs, as she was diagnosed with a rare form of congenital heart disease. Today, Jade is a happy and healthy 4 1/2 year-old

My latest WiseGEEK articles
My newest batch of five articles has just been published on the WiseGEEK.com site. Highlights of this batch include What Is a Pineoblastoma? and What Is Bone Metastasis? I write at least ten articles a month, mostly on health and medical topics, for this site. You can read all of my WiseGEEK articles by clicking on the titles listed in the column to the left.

Root Exposure on GoodReads.com
Root Exposure: New Voices in Literature is now listed on

More WiseGEEK articles
Check out my most recently published articles on WiseGEEK.com, a site that provides free and clear answers to common questions. I write at least ten articles a month, almost exclusively about medical topics. You can always reference my WiseGEEK articles at the sidebar to the left. Highlights of this batch include What Is a Solid Thyroid Nodule? and What Is the Human Metapneumovirus?