Writing & Editing

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/03/nyregion/on-education-a-vital-touchstone-for-high-schools.html

Working with Wells Fargo and Wells Fargo Advisors for many years has built my expertise in writing about investing, personal finance and other money topics. I have also concepted, written and edited financial content for Brighthouse Financial, Fidelity Charitable, TIAA and Wachovia Bank. This piece on private school education is a good example of my reporting and writing. While some of the tax particulars are now different because of reforms that went into effect in 2018, the bottom line advice — choose the path that works for your family — will never go out of date.

I was thrilled to be picked to lead the just-launched BB&T Leadership Institute Magazine. The topics are complex, the audience is very specific and the production values of the print edition are high. Even only a few months working with this project, I’ve learned new thinking I can apply to leading my team at work. Our team also writes and edits for The BB&T Leadership Institute website and LinkedIn social media presence.

Our State is one of several magazines where my freelance pieces appeared from 1998 onward. “Two Easels, One Vocation,” about the founders of the Originals Only gallery in West Jefferson, North Carolina, has a particular warm spot in my heart because the February 2010 weekend I went to do the interview, my (now) husband completely surprised me and proposed.

“Fifty Nifty United States,” a small mighty column, won a 2009 Silver Eddie award in the annual Folio: competition. Published in the July/August 2008 issue of AAA Traveler, the column also sparked reader response and submissions to our "as told to" column.

What a thrill to interview Cokie Roberts in 2007! I admire her greatly as a journalist, and my mom admires her mom, the late Representative Lindy Boggs, in particular for her work on the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 to give women the freedom to borrow money without a male cosigner.

A 1998 freelance assignment for Writer’s Digest on fact-checking got me onto a bookshelf when the piece was collected in Writer’s Digest Handbook of Magazine Article Writing. Yeah, it was a long time ago, but it’s as relevant a topic today as it was 20-plus years ago.