About Me

This is where I’m supposed to tell you about me.  Stuff like how I’m happily married and a mother of two and I was born on a Monday and it was cloudy.  All of that.  But, really, this is already all about me.  This whole blog thing.  Pretty self-centered, eh?

But maybe I should tell you here about where I get off trying to sell myself as a writer.  My resume, if you will:

• Well, I’ve written a ton of feature stories for magazines (none that you’ve heard of).  If you Google top five things to look for when buying a digital camera, you might find me.  My parents are so proud.
• I spent my early career in politics and worked as a speechwriter.  You know that speech where President Reagan said, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!  Gives you goosebumps, doesn’t it?  Yeah, I didn’t write that.   No, I was in 7th grade social studies class watching it from an audio/video cart.  But it inspired me when I had to write speeches — speeches like why liberals suck.  (Important, because I am one.)
• For the past six years I’ve worked for a charitable grant-making foundation where I review grant proposals and write up evaluations about
  

  This old milk campaign lied to me. I still look like the girl on the right.

  nonprofit-led ventures.  (Feel free to just vaguely nod along here.  Even my family and friends don’t get what I do.)  I love my day job.  But you may be surprised to learn I don’t get many opportunities there to write about Cabbage Patch Kids or Shaun Cassidy.  I know, isn’t that a shame?  Enter, my blog.

• Here are a few other relevant things you should know.  I’m also an award-winning short story writer (see here), an award-winning essayist (see here), an award-winning copywriter (see here), and have carried out a successful written lobbying campaign (see here).  I usually try to downplay these accomplishments so I don’t come off as bragging.  Well, and also there’s the fact that most of these things occurred when I was in grade school.  Oh, that, and plagiarism might have had something to do with at least one of them.