: About Me

When I was three years old, my mother walked into my room and found me scrawling on my sheets with crayon. That was the moment she knew that one day I would become a writer.

Or a vandal, but she chose to go with her better instincts.

Without a single graffiti violation on my record, I earned a degree in advertising and psychology from Syracuse University's SI Newhouse School of Public Communications, while writing and doing layout for the student newspaper on the side. Then, I began my career as assistant art director at one of the largest ad agencies in Boston. While there, I taught continuing education courses in graphic design and production for both the Art Institute of Boston and Northeastern University, often writing my own course assignments and materials when I found the curriculum materials lacking.

After a stint as a freelance graphic artist for Cahners Publishing, Sundance Publishing and other Boston area publishers and ad agencies, I returned to my roots in New York's Hudson Valley, and to writing, my first love. I wrote copy for many area companies, and took a turn as a correspondent for the local newspaper. Even when employed full time in other capacities, I found a way to work writing into my job descriptions.

Currently I am a freelance writer and editor. I have written many articles for the Web, including several for a medical/wellness website. I especially like writing about politics, pop culture, alternative health care and nutrition. And sometimes, a little bit of humor.

Along with some comic essays and short stories, I also have six novels to my credit, and I'm currently working on my seventh. An excerpt from my fourth novel, Goldberg Variations, appeared in a small literary magazine.

In addition to a love for movies, books and baseball, I can also, on occasion, be found playing with crayons. Except I no longer write on the sheets. Computers are much more convenient. You can wipe the crayon marks right off the screen.

My passion is ...

Writing and natural healing. Oh, and did I mention writing?

I know too much about ...

Health issues and nutrition-it makes my husband crazy!

My parents always told me ...

I could do anything I wanted.

My childhood ambition ...

To be a veterinarian, marine biologist or meteorologist

My favorite memory ...

Going camping with my family every August when I was a kid

Why I write ...

If I don't, I get very cranky.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading Victor Frankl, watching American Idol, listening to NPR. How's that for multidimensional?

My first job ...

I cleaned the toilets in my father's dental practice.

My best moment ...

is still to come.

My inspiration ...

I'm inspired by parents who raise their children to be readers.

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