about me
When we were young, my sister and I would walk to the local library and spend Saturday afternoons among the stacks. I remember the light, the smell, the sound, and an overwhelming sense of possibility. While I sat immersed in facts and lost in the classics, I absorbed good sentence structure, realized that punctuation changes meaning, and fell seamlessly into beautifully written conversations.
Fast forward to now: I avert my eyes when passing an incorrectly spelled street sign, I avoid establishments with a pointless and confusing apostrophe in signage, and I am profoundly disappointed when I see an error in a printed or online publication – more and more common with the advent of AI and dependence on spell-check.
I truly love making sense of a tortuous paragraph and, over the last decade and a half, my skills have improved organizations' annual reports, event guides, invitations, contracts, grant documents, email communications, and all manner of correspondence. I have checked links and made sense of procedure manuals and document retention policies. And, throughout my entire adult life, friends, family, and colleagues have asked me to “give this a once over before I send”, “please fix this”, or “tighten this up”.
To stay fresh, I am a member of IDA and EFA and continue to hone my editing skills by taking continuing education and certification courses through Udemy, the College of Media and Publishing, and the AARP.
