I write personal essays and other effluvia; I teach the personal essay through Essay Intensive, and edit the writing of others “like a joyful shark.” Join my Motherink audience over at substack.

I offer birth doula childbirth and perinatal support to people becoming or re-becoming parents and help parents capture their birth stories in intimate virtual sessions.

I support clients trying to figure out how to feed their infants and babies, because inclusive lactation and feeding support buoys new families.

I support students and clients 10-104 years old from all backgrounds to write in a way that feels good and says what they mean.

I help people ground in their physiology to face their hardest moments.

I value clarity, transparency, open-heartedness and deep, deep listening.

It is lucky to be trusted by people at their most vulnerable hours, wrestling with the viability of their ideas or birth preferences or their feelings about feeding with their bodies or bottles.

I am a mother and stepmother who believes in the generosity of the dark, in Jasmine tea, and in both reverence and irreverence.

I believe our creative output is deeply generative. It grows like those incredible sponge monkeys we had as kids that expanded in water-- until Frankie drank one on a dare (and lived, but uncomfortably).

This site: In the same scintillating year, I became a mother and stepmother, exhilarated and challenged to show my children—bio, step, and students— writing matters, and how and what we birth matters.

Breast milk, "ink" and ideas flowed after giving birth more copiously than I could have ever anticipated. The Mother of All Beginnings.

From all that creative juice came this site, Motherink, to hold personal essays, reproductive support, and community.

In my mind, all this belongs together, for this is the way life presents its curriculum. And I-- emulate. I hope to serve life, and while I am at it-- you.