When I was a kid I thought Tom Brokaw was my dad. It's true. I knew about Dad's job selling Cessna planes but believed he delivered the evening news, too, before heading home for dinner. When Brokaw was on I ran to the TV and kissed it.
Perhaps it's not surprising I chose journalism as my occupation. I love everything about it. Reading. Writing. Meeting people. Learning things. Telling stories.
During more than a decade in the business I've worked as a regular contributor to top publications including PEOPLE, Newsweek, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor. My current project is a book on the Everglades, represented by Jason Allen Ashlock of Movable Type Management. I also am proud to work as a producer at WMFE, Orlando's NPR member station, where I am part of the weekly news and interview show, Intersection. I am a former Associated Press reporter in the Nashville, Tenn., bureau. I began my career as an intern at PEOPLE. My specialties are the environment, faith and travel, but I have penned hundreds of articles involving politics, crime, entertainment and more.
I'm a 2012 fellow at the Scripps Howard Institute on the Environment and Science at Florida Atlantic University. I'm also a 2012 recipient of an Artist Development Grant from United Arts of Central Florida. I've appeared as a commentator on CNN Headline News. In 2006 I worked as an editor on the national desk of The Christian Science Monitor, assisting with coverage of the midterm elections. I am an active member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and Society of Environmental Journalists. In 2008 I traveled to Taiwan with a delegation of the Society of Professional Journalists as part of a professional exchange with journalists there.
I am a Florida native and graduate of the University of Florida. I work and live in Orlando with my husband Wade and yellow Lab named Griffin.