About

My journey to journalism followed a circuitous path.

I started work as a registered nurse and my career morphed from the bedside to business offices. As part of my work, I wrote tomes of scholarly reports and research papers ― some important, a handful that were interesting, and not enough that were fulfilling.

Along the way, I had a mid-life epiphany ― I wanted to go to journalism school. The reasonable question that many people posed to me was: Why would anyone with a stable career return to school to major in a field that (by many accounts) is to jobs what Latin is to language?

My answer: to learn to share the stories of real people and their relevance to the larger issues at hand, through solid reporting and narrative writing. Fast forward to my graduation from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Through my work in healthcare, I sought to make a positive difference in the world. It’s the same with journalism. Similar destination, different vehicle. I believe that writing can inform, enlighten, entertain, and inspire us.

As an avid reader, I believe that literacy and liberty are close bedfellows. (In the photo on this page, I was reading to elementary school students for “World Read Aloud Day.”)

I live in New York’s Lower Hudson River Valley where I revel in the sight of old rock walls and meandering country roads.

Like J. R. R. Tolkien, I believe that “Not all those who wander are lost.”