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I am a blogger and so much more.
I am an award-winning freelance writer and editor with over ten year’s experience working on websites covering topics from consumer health to education to aging and eldercare. I have a Master of Fine Arts degree in nonfiction writing from Penn State and have used and honed the skills I learned there every day since I graduated in 1997.
I write about travel
In February 2009, my essay “Riding the341” about traveling in London with my son won the Family Fun category of the Intrepid Travel Writing Contest at Wanderlust and Lipstick. My blog was named one of the top ten Family Travel blogs for 2009 by Tripbase.com. And around the web you can find me writing a variety of articles including:
- “Land of the Free: 5 fab freebies in Delaware” at WeJustGotBack.
- “Growing Up on Bikes, One Mile at a Time” at Schwinn Joyride.
- “Travel With My Father” at Ciao Bambino.
I was the recipient of a 2005 Emerging Artist fellowship grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts for my work on the unpublished book The Mother of All Trips: 13 Months, 8 Stops, 1 Toddler. Excerpts of my book are available online including the preface, Why We Went, and Chapter 7 Texas Wants You Anyway.
Other chapters are available on request.
I write about health and development
My other writing is mostly in the area of parenting and consumer health. I have written extensively for the leading pediatric health website KidsHealth.org on topics ranging from coping with asthma to encouraging your child’s sense of humor. The dozens of articles I’ve written for parents, teens, and kids include:
- Music and Your School-age Child
- Cystic Fibrosis and Nutrition
- Playing With Fire (for kids)
- Should I Gain Weight? (for teens)
I am currently working with the team at KidsHealth and the GetWellNetwork to create a series of scripts for patient-education videos on a variety of topics.
I write about my life and family
My literary publications include essays titled “Proud Flesh” in Creative Nonfiction, which was favorably reviewed in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and “God Bless, Your Grandmother,” in Center: A Journal for the Literary Arts.
I am passionate about the art of writing in many forms, from blog entries to articles to essays, I believe in the craft of storytelling as a way to educate and inspire.
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