More About Me

I've been a full-time freelance writer since 1998, when I packed in the high stress, high cost New York City life for the quiet of northern California. Things haven't been as quiet as I expected.

I moved to New York right after graduating from Princeton in 1990. I worked at Adweek Magazine as a features reporter, then worked at Cosmopolitan, then Glamour, acquiring book excerpts and writing book-related items and features.

From 1995-1998, I developed and edited Web sites for Reader's Digest, Fodor's Travel Guides, IBM and other clients as editorial director at a Web development company. I continued to write about careers, business and technology.

In 1998, my husband and I packed it in and headed to Redding, Calif., where I launched my full-time freelance career. I wrote technology, travel and retirement-related features for The Wall Street Journal, career related features for Cosmopolitan and Glamour, and stories for many other magazines including Forbes FYI, SmartMoney and Chief Executive. In 1999, Chief Executive asked me to launch a spin-off called DotCEO. The magazine lasted just two issues before the Great Dot-Com crash of 2000, but it let me work with many wonderful writers and graphic designers.

Since 2000, I've specialized in personal finance and business, but written numerous general features as well. In 2004, Rodale Books published my first book, The Family CFO: The Couple's Business Plan for Love and Money, co-written with Mary Claire Allvine, a certified financial planner. My second book, This is How We Do It: The Working Mother's Manifesto, written with Carol Evans, was published in 2006 (the year after I had my twins!)