Welcome to my blog, It’s a Writing Life! The title reflects my lifelong joy in writing about interesting and involved people, current events, business and civic interests, history, sports as well as research-driven and travel-related subjects. It also includes deep dives on family histories, ancestry and any subject that expands my learning curve. In a word, everything I love.
For the past few years, I have been writing freelance articles for publications such as Architectural Digest (AD it yourself) and Naples Illustrated, a Naples, Florida lifestyle magazine. As a professional writer, I’ve had the pleasure and honor of writing about fun do-it-yourself home projects as well as many dynamic and engaged people and organizations. Learning about their work is truly inspiring. You can check out my recent work here, including two feature articles that won Florida Magazine Association (FMA) Charlie Awards in 2021 and 2022.
One of the great things about writing is that I am often inspired by events that happen in a normal day. With my most recent freelance assignment, I was able to write about several home improvement projects Bill and I have undertaken at our vacation home for Conde Nast’s Architectural Digest vertical, AD It Yourself (ADIY). Architectural Digest, which rebranded as AD in 2017,
There is something about the turn of the calendar to a fresh month that feels invigorating. October to November is one of those moments, when this feeling of ‘I must write a blog post’ seems to take hold. This post serves as a brief catch-up for all my faithful readers. It’s been a bit of an up and down year
Like my mother, I am an inveterate obituary scanner. While I am not the everyday checker that she was, I do open the obits screen of my hometown newspaper every few weeks and scroll through. From observing Mom over the years, I know that If she caught a name that sounded vaguely familiar, she would say, ‘so and so knew
Old sports equipment had a very long shelf life in my childhood home. Tennis racquets, footballs, golf clubs and field hockey sticks stuck around way past their usable phase. When I think of all that gear, I am reminded of our family’s younger years, when Mom was calling us for dinner, and we were exhausted from running around in the
For the past year-and-a-half, I’ve been freelance writing for a couple of clients and have found, once again, that I love to work. The opportunity to learn about accomplished, involved and interesting people, or events, organization and topics, and then write about them, continues to expand my lifelong learning curve. Recently, I’ve mostly written profiles and feature articles for Naples
