What I Do Now:
Board Member, Food Allergy Fund, non-profit focused on underlying causes of food allergies.
Speaker, Guest Teacher, Research Advocate for the food allergy community.
Why I wrote a book: I was an English teacher long before I was a mother, but children changed my life in ways I hadn't foreseen. My son Eden was seriously allergic to seven of the "Big 8" food allergens. So I devoted myself to learning about this vexing modern epidemic. I began narrating my family's food allergy journey to support the food allergy community and to unpack the universal experiences of food and family: I began as a blogger and then I wrote my memoir, FEEDING EDEN: I continue to support the food allergy community by writing, speaking and teaching.
Read my writing on
The Huffington Post
Read my writing on
Psychology Today
While my regular readers have already read my Huffington Post piece about the relative futility of parenting trends ( Go Ask Alice: Parents Will Screw Up No Matter How They "Parent" ) I got a few touching emails that prompted me to recycle it here on Peanuts In Eden. One mother wrote that the piece made her realize she felt like Goldilocks "Always trying to get it just right."
