I write newsletters, web site copy, business-to-business marketing pieces, and magazine stories for a living. I also write essays, short stories, and am working on a memoir. My magazine credits include AARP.com, Parenting, American Baby, Pregnancy, Hemispheres, Better Health & Living, Delta Sky, USAA, Weekly Reader, Utne Reader, Minnesota Monthly, Twin Cities Business, and the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. Here’s a sampling of recent work:

Stories About Money

• Lay Down Your Cards: Six Personal Finance Experts Reveal Which Credit Cards They Use
• Hey, Big Spender: It takes more than a higher income to end up truly wealthy.
• Growing Your Green: Already abandoned your New Year’s budget resolutions? Resolve is just a click away.
• A Healthy Investment: New rules make HSAs an even better investment to save for a rainy day.
• Save Now, Play Later: What you can do to reverse the national spending binge, one kid at a time.

Stories About Health

• Get Out of Spin City: Why you feel like you’re at sea on land — and how to stop the dizzies
• After Breast Cancer: Working through pain and fear toward a new normal.
• Ten Quick Tests to Prevent a Heart Attack
• Understanding Gestational Diabetes
• HPV Vaccine: Fighting the most common STD you’ve never heard of.
• Easy as ABCs? Which vitamins teens are missing, and why pills can’t replace food.
• Hot Lunch Goes Healthy: Chef Seth Bixby Daugherty leaves Cosmos to help change school cafeterias.

Stories About Parenting

• True Confessions: Doctors are Just Like Us! They make parenting mistakes too.
• Building Funny Bones: How your baby develops a sense of humor
• Blueprint for Safety: A room-by-room baby proofing guide