A Houston organization whose mission is to provide child abuse prevention programs needed a compelling annual report. I pitched this idea to the graphic arti...
My portfolio includes published articles, annual reports, press releases, taglines and headlines, marketing collateral, case studies, brochures, and more. Whether working as a copywriter in an ad agency, a communications director for a non-profit, a web editor in a government agency or throughout my many years as a freelancer, meeting the needs of my clients and exceeding their expectations has always been my highest priority.
Mozart wasn't the only musician who showed talent at an early age. Lots of kids show signs of musical talent before they're old enough to read and write--and...
Three stories that give parents an inside look at what it's like to raise twins.
As our children grow up, we celebrate the milestones. Their first step. Their first bike ride. And the day they drive a car alone for the first time, leaving...
Houston Christian High School needed a marketing piece that conveyed its special curriculum and focus. From the imaginative inner cover filled with questions...
After a 20-year sabbatical, I returned to teaching last January. Houston Community College needed an adjunct professor in the English department to teach exp...
Christian radio station KSBJ-FM chose this headline I created for a Christmas billboard on one of Houston's busiest highways. It was awarded a Citation of Ex...
This marketing brochure for Houston Arts Alliance outlined the diversity of work accomplished by the non-profit and introduced the new tagline, it all starts...
Family Ties - Seven steps to becoming a post-divorce parent your kids can count on
Published articles
This article is based on a book that my former husband and I are co-authoring about parenting after divorce.
In 2003, I had the pleasure of working with MetroNational, a privately held real estate investment, development and management company that owns and manages ...
One of Houston's leading comedy clubs hired me to help boost their numbers. I pitched this article about their November fundraiser, a silent auction to benef...
Photographer Nancy Burson ponders the same questions as the rest of us: What would I look like if I'd been born in a different culture, of a different race. ...
As a singer and a member of Houston Masterworks Chorus, I was honored to interview Grammy award-winning composer Morten Lauridsen for Chorus America.
After taking several skydiving lessons, I became interested in the psychology behind risk-taking. Meeting and talking with John DeRosalia gave me some answer...
Choral conductor Craig Hella Johnson is best known as the founder, conductor and musical director of Conspirare, an award-winning choral ensemble based in Au...
How do you achieve peak performance? After experiencing the thrill of skydiving myself, I wrote this article for Parachutist magazine about how professional ...
What do you really want? What's keeping you from going after it? Most of us could name a dozen things we want to accomplish and--if pressed--could also list ...
Once upon a time, kids who had never heard the word "ecology" shared their swimming hole with bullfrogs, dug up a pail full of nightcrawlers for an afternoon...
As the mother of two young sons, I wrestled with the question of how to encourage them to do well in school. I wrote this article reflecting on the way my gr...
While parents take pride in teaching their kids to "tell time," few of us help them learn to make the most of it. Children aren't born with an understanding ...
