About Me


I’m an award-winning editor and writer for consumer, trade and B2B audiences. My specialties include health and business, but I'm a strong interviewer and researcher who can treat any subject with curiosity and an obsession for accuracy. 

I'm also a certified speech-language pathologist (though I no longer practice). I spent a dozen years treating adults with neurological disorders and injuries. SLPs do more than just help people pronounce words correctly. In a hospital or nursing home setting, we help people recover the ability to communicate after a traumatic brain injury, stroke, onset of dementia, Parkinson's disease, head and neck cancer, and more. We also work on cognition (memory, reasoning) and swallowing. As a result of this background, my ninja skill is presenting complex medical information in a manner that readers find interesting, engaging, accurate and actionable.

Some favorite work

Reader's Digest •

Gun Violence Statistics in the United States: 12 Charts You Need to See

Defined most commonly as any shooting in which four or more people—not including the perpetrator—are injured or killed, mass shootings happen every day in America, and sometimes more often. In 2019, there were 417 such assaults. In 2020, there were 610—nearly two mass shootings per day—killing 513 people and injuring 2,543. But mass shootings represent a tiny fragment of the problem. Nearly 20,000 people were murdered by guns last year, and another 40,000 injured.
AAA Colorado •

A Love Affair with America’s Bookstores

They say some people get more pleasure out of planning a vacation than they do from the trip itself. That’s me with bookstores. I love imagining my next visit, whether it’s to a literary legend like The Strand, operating in New York City for nearly 100 years, and housing some 2.5 million books, or even to a local favorite like Denver’s Tattered Cover. The list of bookstores I have loved—and those I hope to visit—continues to grow, rivaling the toppling tower of tomes on my nightstand.
Par8o Research Network •

Turning to Patient Portals and Other Technology to Help Advance the Community Health Center's Mission

More than 90 percent of hospitals and other healthcare providers— including community health centers (CHCs) — have adopted patient portals in recent years, largely in an effort to boost patient engagement. Portals offer patients conveniences like the ability to schedule appointments, pay bills, download test results, request prescription refills, and send secure messages to their doctors from their computers, phones, or tablets, helping to make engagement with healthcare quicker and easier than ever.