Respecting the Italian way of life.
Rob and I this summer spent 10 days in Italy. Ten glorious days. We started in Lucca, a charming town in Tuscany, then spent a full week in Bologna, the spiritual center of Italian food and the capital of its ...
Category Archives: Food for Thought
Is Instagram making us fat?
First, a caveat: I’m part of the system. Let’s call it the Social Food Media Juggernaut. As a writer and content-maker focused on food & wellness, I write plenty of blog posts, share recipes through Pinterest and Instagram, even make those ...
Looking for inspiration in all the right places.
In college, I took a 200-level English class on American literature and popular culture that focused on the intersection of music and literature. We studied Sam Shepard and Patti Smith’s rock-and-roll play “Cowboy Mouth.” I remember writing a term paper ...
Do people (really) know who you are?
I’ve spent the past several months deep in biographies. I’ve read Beryl Markham’s “West With the Night” and Ernest Hemingway’s “A Moveable Feast” — but that’s not the kind of biography I’m talking about here. Let’s discuss the Professional Biography, shall ...
A little more about me.
I love this new sell sheet that promotes my copywriting capabilities for food industry clients and publications -- design courtesy of the talented Jill Lynn Design (who also created my website).
You don’t suck at writing. You just need to get started.
Recently, I was having a “you can do it” sort of conversation with a client who’s stuck in the long, thankless-until-it’s-published slog of writing a book, when she asked me about my writing process. The answer I gave her was ...
Finding inspiration in Hemingway: Are you refilling?
“I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing; but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed ...
Let’s make work a nicer place.
I’m just back from three days at HOW Design Live — the premier event for folks in the creative professions (graphic and web design, advertising, marcomm and related fields). HOW remains close to my heart, since I spent many years ...
New work: Taste of the Holidays for Meijer.
I loved creating the copy for Meijer's beautiful in-store holiday publication. Our goal was to create an approachable, engaging guide for holiday entertaining, cooking and gift-giving, with content designed to spark ideas — and, of course, to prompt sales of ...
Who are your influences?
There’s a scene in “The Commitments” (a terrific movie about the rise and fall of a soul band in working-class Dublin) where self-appointed manager Jimmy Rabbette is auditioning singers. A parade of musicians knock on Jimmy’s door; he opens it ...