My Resume

Since 1994, I have provided a number of writing and writing-related services, including feature article and book writing, copywriting, copyediting, proofreading, and journal workshop facilitation.

 

Certified Instructor, Journal to the Self®

 

Facilitator, “After Brain Injury: Telling Your Story,” a journaling workshop for people with brain injury, 2006 to present (see book of same title below)

 

Books:

• After Brain Injury: Telling Your Story, with co-author Susan B. Schuster, M.A.-CCC SLP, the first journaling workbook for people with brain injury. Lash and Associates Publishing/Training, September 2009
• Diabetes (Diseases and Disorders), Lucent Books, 2009, for middle-school students
• What I Thought I Knew (collection of personal essays), Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, Inc., September 2008
• For MT Publishing, Inc.: The Battle for Anzio; First Infantry Division in World War II: The Big Red One (with Maj. Gen. Clift Andrus); Earthquakers: 12th Bombardment Group; Indiana Farm Bureau (1919-1999): Era of Change; Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War; A History of Hamilton County, Illinois; and others

 

Books Contributed to:

• Peak Vitality: Raising the Threshold of Abundance in our Material, Spiritual, and Emotional Lives (Elite Books, 2008): Associate Editor
• Einstein's Business: Engaging Soul, Imagination, and Excellence in the Workplace (Elite Books, 2007): Associate Editor. (Honored by The National Indie Excellence Book Award as the Best Business 2007 Book)
• For Faircount International, as senior writer: Uncommon Valor: 50th Anniversary of the Battle for Iwo Jima; NOAA: Celebrating 200 Years of Science, Service, and Stewardship; Forgotten Victory: 50th Anniversary of the Korean War; Delivering America: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the United Service Organizations; Wings of Glory: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the United States Air Force; Forest Service Centennial; and others.

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Features and personal essays have appeared in:

Print Publications:

• Spirituality & Health, The Progressive, Science of Mind, Science & Spirit, Pure Inspiration, Independent Business, Sculptural Pursuit, Executive Female, The Christian Science Monitor, Arts Indiana, Soroptimist International, Evansville Courier, Evansville Living, Illinois Business, On the Issues, Indiana Journal of Commerce and Industry, German News, Troika, The World of Martial Arts, Sojourner, FiberArts, and others

 

Online:

• Newsweek.com, MSNBC.com, Cutting Edge Law, Word Journeys, Moondance, American News Service, and others

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Poetry

• Southern Indiana Review, Poet, and Open 24 Hours

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Awards

• First Place, Prose, Sculptural Pursuit, 2006 writing contest, “Overcoming the Wobblies, or Those Are the Brakes”
• First Place, Personal Essay/Memoir, Society of Southwestern Authors 2003 Writing Contest, “My Dad and the Sphinx”
• Winner of 2001 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for “Another Way of Doing Justice,” published in Science of Mind, July 2001.

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Additional

• Guest Editor, Science of Mind, May and June 2003 issues
• Editor, Indiana Journal of Commerce & Industry, mid- to late 1990s
• Radio essayist and arts interviewer for WNIN 88.3 FM, Evansville, Indiana, late 1990s
• Copywriter/Public Information Assistant - November 1987 to December 1993, Vectren (formerly Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company): wrote internal and external company publications and miscellaneous items such as speeches, scripts for in-house slide presentations, various pieces for Marketing department, SIGECO history, employee campaign newspaper ads, 1989 annual report, news releases, etc.