Cynthia Hanson is a veteran journalist with more than 20 years experience writing for national publications. With more than 400 bylines to her credit, she has written articles and columns for some 35 leading magazines and newspapers, including Ladies’ Home Journal, Family Circle, Redbook, Glamour, Bride’s, Parents, Southwest Airlines Spirit and The Wall Street Journal. She has been a contributing editor to Chicago magazine and a career columnist for Cosmopolitan. Cynthia received her AB degree in Political Science from Brown University. She now lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and their son.