by admin | Dec 31, 2014 | Blog
With just a few hours until 2015, I’m taking stock of the past year. I grew my business in several ways in 2014, with new freelance clients and a great teaching opportunity. Here are a few highlights: I spent my second year writing for and about healthcare...
by admin | Aug 27, 2014 | Blog
I haven’t been a student for years, but my life still revolves around the academic calendar. My husband is a teacher and I teach college classes, including an online course for the University of Massachusetts that begins Tuesday. So I tend to see September as...
by admin | Aug 18, 2014 | Blog
I’m one of those reporters who cringes at the sound of her voice when transcribing audio of interviews. But I didn’t let that stop me from accepting the chance to be interviewed on the radio about my e-book, Curing Camden: How One City Became a Model for...
by admin | Jul 17, 2014 | Blog
I recently unearthed a 2010 interview I did with Joe Grimm of Poynter. Only five months into the full-time freelance life, I was cautiously optimistic about leaving my job at Newsday to pursue self-employment. Here’s an excerpt: This new gig is: Great — at least...
by admin | Jul 14, 2014 | Blog
I’m a little nervous about writing this post. That’s because Ben Yagoda, the arbiter of the way we speak and write now, will probably read it. Yagoda, who was one of my journalism professors at the University of Delaware, just released a new e-book, You...
by admin | Jun 30, 2014 | Blog
Today marks the end of 30 straight days of blogging. And I’m breathing a big sigh of relief. I’m grateful to the blogathon for motivating me to start this blog — and to stick with it for a full month. But I learned that 30 days of nonstop blogging...
