Somebody gets paid to check into hotels under a false name and report back on what they find, and she wrote a long running series about doing exactly that. The road warrior instalments cover airports, cruise ships, bars and the strange rhythm of a life spent in other people's rooms, and they are the reason to be here.
The adoption post is the other one that matters. Its title promises the real version rather than the television version, and that turns out to be a fair description of what follows.
She also asks when giving up is the sensible choice instead of the shameful one, having wanted more than once to abandon working for herself and rejoin the people who leave the house every morning. She talks herself back each time and admits it.
Eleven posts, including one about meeting her husband on a blind date and another about a church being sued.
Start with the hotel series and read it in order. It is the closest thing here to an actual story.