The essay earned me a job writing for Scary Mommy at the height of its popularity. For eight years, I held a staff position writing about the intersections between parenting, mental health, feminism, politics, and pop culture. I was one of the site’s two most prolific staffwriters, with over 1,000 articles to my name, and I kept that audience by breaking down complex topics with sarcasm and humor. “What Normal Looks Like” was discussed and syndicated in everything from The Huffington Post to small newspapers across America; my essays about Brock Turner led to speaking engagements with CNN and Canadian National Public Radio. During Covid, I became the site’s leading vaccine expert, which required in-depth research; I interviewed everyone from Sandy Hook moms to Giselle Fetterman. My work on the Murdaugh trial was syndicated, including by Yahoo News, and I was the first national journalist to ask questions about the death of Murdaugh’s maid, Gloria Satterfield. 

During that time, I also freelanced with The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, ADDitude Magzine, and Time Magazine. Highlights include my essay about buying a house, which landed on the front page of the WaPo real estate section; an interview with a mother whose child needed a bone marrow transplant for Insider; two articles for ADDitude which made their top-25 articles of all time (available here and here), more than any other journalist who was not a medical professional; and a live interview with BBC World News about the rise of artificial intelligence and its threat to human writers (February 2023).