WRITING SAMPLES
Palm Beach Atlantic University
As a freelance reporter, writer, photographer and editor, I've worked with the university to keep its website well-stocked with interesting features. PBA is a very special college environment, and its students are no less exceptional, making this longterm freelance relationship a very rewarding one. Click below to read stories on the university website.
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PBA Pharmacy Students Serve Western Communities
Franchising Internship Inspires Student
Tarver Discusses Fandom of Sports at IRC
Online Program Aids Working Mother
Student Life Completes Campus Summer Lineup
Program Aims to Groom Good Golfers, People
Free Enterprise Leadership Challenge Teaches About Business
Counterterrorism Officer Tells How She Relied on God
World Problems Need Global Solutions, Lyceum Speaker Says
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Palm Beach Real Estate Guide
As Marketing & Communications Director for the Palm Beach Board of Realtors, I wrote a light and breezy Palm Beach lifestyle blog to support the board's luxury real estate magazine. Click below to read posts.
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Real Recovery Series
While working as a Creative Director, I was asked to create an ad campaign based on the intimate stories of addicts, recovering addicts, and their families. I wrote and designed these pieces, each based on hours of in-person interviews, capturing each person's story in just 100 words. Click image to view/download PDF.
This is the way you'll get to know me best. Click below to read selected posts.
Company on the Trail: I may (or may not) have met an alligator. Let's just say I did.
Among the Missing: Because the world stops when you lose your wallet.
Oundo: Still my favorite post – and possibly my favorite word – of all time.
Aid and Comfort (Part I, Part II, Part III): I was widowed at 39. This series looks at what helped and what didn't.
My Coach's Kid: Ironically, I DID eventually become my son's first soccer coach; he's now an elite player.
The Book That Changed Me: I'm a reader, and I can name a lot of books that moved me. But none like this one.
Up on the Roof: What else are you going to do when your neighbors pop ceramic lions on top of their house?
Promises, Promises: When you brag that you can write virtually anything, you'd better come through.
Gateway Journalism Review
In the hours after the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, I was asked to write this analysis of the media coverage. I never expected to be writing about kids. Click to read on the GJR site.