A former health and parenting columnist for Time, she has written for publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, NBC News, Scientific American, and O, The Oprah Magazine. Her favorite assignment was covering the death beat, writing feature obituaries about cantankerous characters at The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) . She lives in Seattle, which serves as a base from which to explore the peaks of the Pacific Northwest with her husband and three children.