My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Female
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Weekly columnist for ZestOfOrange.com; retired newspaper editor
Location	Hudson Valley, United States
Introduction	I was born in South Carolina and grew up on the Gulf Coast during the civil rights era. In upstate New York, I worked as a features and business writer, did technical and advertising copywriting, gave collaborative poetry/dance performances with a local choreographer for Performing Artists for Nuclear Disarmament, wrote for Current Biography, and worked for 18 years as a newspaper and magazine editor. My work has won both statewide and national awards for writing and newspaper design. I write a weekly opinion column for ZestOfOrange.com; my political commentary has also appeared on the progressive website OpEdNews.com.
Interests	Poet & essayist, progressive political columnist, erstwhile quiltmaker & night gardener