more about me
I had a very different career before becoming a writer, journalist, and fractional content strategist. I was a litigation attorney for over a decade. Then a sabbatical took me away from the U.S. I never went back to law. Little did I know at the time that my legal education and training would prepare me for a successful career in an entirely different field.
My legal background wired me for deep research and evidence-based thinking. I’m comfortable with complexity. Whether I’m interviewing an executive, digging into a technical report, or building a content roadmap from scratch, my job is to find the why, then translate it into something authoritative and actionable.
I’ve spent the last 15 years living and working as a writer, editor, and content professional across the globe, from Seattle to London to the EU to the Caribbean. I thrive on new challenges, including co-founding a boat charter business in the tropics. Living outside my comfort zone has sharpened my ability to listen, adapt, and find the human angle in any story.
When clients need more than great writing, I step in as a fractional content strategist (a/k/a head of content). I bring my senior-level thinking to editorial planning, content operations, and team leadership without the commitment of a full-time hire.
I don’t do it alone. I have my own team behind me.
meet my team
Every great operation has its support staff. Mine just happen to have four legs. They don’t invoice, they do get paid in treats. Most important, they show up every day…even if they spend most of their time napping.
chief of staff
Marley is one of the longest-serving members of my organization. She’s been with me for two international moves and begrudgingly accepted the recent addition of a board of directors. Hey, change is an inevitable part of growth, right? She was adopted from a local island animal shelter as a kitten.
She’s spicy, rarely amused, and judges everything and everyone. She doesn’t have time for your shenanigans. She definitely doesn’t appreciate the Board always in her business. I may do the work that keeps this ship afloat, but she runs the show. She never lets me forget it.
Nicknames: princess, monkey, spice girl
board of directors
When you find three bonded sibling kittens abandoned at the island dump, you can’t separate them. So you do what any reasonable person would do. You bring them all home to live with you. I had always wanted a black cat and put that wish out in the Universe years ago. Moral of the story: Be careful what you wish for.
Nyx, Jet, and Rook are young, they’re adventurous, they’ve destroyed every floor-length curtain in my home. They’re also funny, cuddly, and often hard to tell apart. Their main responsibility as members of the newly created Board of Directors is to execute cute office antics that keep my stress levels down (most of the time). They have the opposite effect on my Chief of Staff.
Nicknames: the ringwraiths, trio of terror
security detail
Bula and Sol are my seasoned security team. They’ve also been part of multiple international moves. They’ve even flown on their own private plane chartered just for them. Spoiled, right? Although they spend their days napping in my air conditioned office, they’re always on high alert for threats (real or imagined).
Both are typical island dogs and have barks that will pierce your eardrums (and the eardrums of those on the other end of a Zoom call). They can accelerate from deep sleep to full-on chaos mode in less than one second. All it takes is the sound of a car door closing a block away. It is their mission to keep me safe when I work from home. They get paid in treats.
Nicknames: Sol Man, Bula Bear, Doggos
The whole team is ready to work with you.