Over the years as a journalist, I’ve covered many stories about crime, car crashes, suicides, domestic violence and poverty. “Why can’t you write about something positive?” my husband, a fellow journalist, often asked.
I wrote about these stories because they needed to be told. Many of the articles changed laws and lives.
But along with my serious newspaper stories, I have had some fun during my career. I joined a circus (for a day), interviewed blood-thirsty vampires, and motored through the Florida Everglades hunting for red-eyed alligators.
I have also written about motherhood and the joys, demands, and angst of parenting.
From Failure to Pulitzer
http://www.unh.edu/english/index.cfm?id=9B7E65C1-075E-9A7D-C1089F0FCA74F486
Covering Teen Suicide: One Paper’s Decision
http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/36012/covering-teen-suicide-one-papers-decision/
Reporting compelling stories about ordinary teens
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=101742
Mental Illness: Reporting on Maine’s Most Vulnerable Children
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/101194/Mental-Illness-Reporting-on-Maines-Most-Vulnerable-Children.aspx
A Stolen Soul
http://dartcenter.org/content/stolen-soul
Sticking My Neck Out With Vampires
Published Sunday, August 22, 1993 in Sunshine Magazine for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Raising Maine – stories about motherhood and family
http://raisingmaine.mainetoday.com/blog.html?id=147909
Yankee Quill speech October 2007, Boston
I thought writing this speech would be difficult but it turned out trying to figure out what to wear was even tougher. My six-year-old daughter Nora informed me with every outfit I tried on, “That looks super weird Mommy.”
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