Where writing fits in
My writing marks my hours and years. Though my hands have spent many an hour typing, they're also worn from planting fruit trees, tiling hearths, cutting trails, and getting tangled in all manner of projects outside and in. I've served as matchmaker by finding homes for shelter dogs, careers for uncertain youth, and housing for people in transition. I've fixed up and sold too many houses. I've loved dogs and other nonverbal beings more than is sensible.
As I earned degrees in philosophy, history, and writing, I gained experience as a writer, editor, and teacher. I taught high school dropouts to earn their GEDs, high school teens and college freshmen to understand the Middle Ages, ESL learners to speak English idiomatically, young children to listen to stories, prison inmates to read, and college youth to write. I've edited books, journal articles, newsletters, and websites. I've learned that teaching, writing, and doing go hand-in-hand, each informing the other.
Writing is how I process my thoughts, craft my arguments, share my ideas, and embellish my world.
After ten years of running a writing center and teaching writing at a small liberal arts college, I left academia. I play music, and I've become immersed in the ways people engage with music in their own lives. I always welcome a new adventure, so drop me a line.
As I earned degrees in philosophy, history, and writing, I gained experience as a writer, editor, and teacher. I taught high school dropouts to earn their GEDs, high school teens and college freshmen to understand the Middle Ages, ESL learners to speak English idiomatically, young children to listen to stories, prison inmates to read, and college youth to write. I've edited books, journal articles, newsletters, and websites. I've learned that teaching, writing, and doing go hand-in-hand, each informing the other.
Writing is how I process my thoughts, craft my arguments, share my ideas, and embellish my world.
After ten years of running a writing center and teaching writing at a small liberal arts college, I left academia. I play music, and I've become immersed in the ways people engage with music in their own lives. I always welcome a new adventure, so drop me a line.