Writing

Winning With Words

I'm a communications nerd. I spent my first career ushering small businesses through the deluge of innovative communications tools and strategies. Words matter. Stories matter. I delighted in using the right message on the right platform to launch entrepreneurial successes.

I'm starting a new life chapter writing folksy stories with potent messages and a few gut wrenching twists. Because, that's life.

Nonfiction:

Please See Me - Breathing Water at the Bottom of the Ocean - my realization that a healthy brain is incapable of understanding a suicidal brain.
Herstry.com - The Unbearably Long List of Joys - the double edged sword of joy after grief. And the fun of a crazy smart son.
Mindwise.org - How To Show Up and Stay Strong Supporting a Grieving Family - an article published on Mindwise.org, a non-profit providing suicide prevention and postvention training to grade schools, universities, mental health professionals, employers, cities and states.
Common Ground Newsletter - A periodic newsletter looking for ways to bring our divided country back together.
What if 2020 wasn’t the worst year of your life?
What if 2019 was so bad you welcomed the pain of the apocalyptic pandemic year like a child welcomes the wall smashing against her head as a way to cover the hurt?

Fiction:

TulipTree Press - Choices, a fictional work based on accompanying a friend through an angry line of protestors to receive an abortion published in TulipTree Review Spring/Summer 2020 issue #8 Wild Women.
You Are Fierce - my salacious ode to the challenges of regular exercise.
Widow Warriors - a poem inspired by the women who brave together the solitary path of surviving suicide.

Professional Writing: (the older, less emotive stuff I did back when I was a tech CEO)