With a Masters Degree in English and years of writing experience in the business world and on a volunteer basis for numerous nonprofits, I have writing down to both an art and a science.

I also have a gift for providing a quick turnaround. For several years I pounded out a monthly 750-800 word column on the newspaper’s computer (I did not own one in the very early 1980s) in 2 hours or less, I have written a number of 1200-2000+ word sermons during the Saturday night and early Sunday morning before the church service, and I submitted a 2000 word article reporting on a 1.5 hour meeting that ended at 8:30 p.m. by 9:00 a.m. the next morning. And I got 6 hours of sleep.

As a grant writer, both paid and volunteer, I wrote several winning proposals, although I now prefer to use my persuasive writing skills via fundraising appeals or other non-grant writing capacities.

I wrote the technical manual for Ray Kurzweil’s Cybernetic Poet, edited technical repair manuals written by engineers at Gillette, and was one of two researchers and a major proofreader for The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil.

As the Market Manager of the Wakefield Farmers Market from January 2011 to June 2019, I was constantly writing articles, press releases, event descriptions, and text for social media posts. I did the same for Breton Electric, the company I ran, on a full-time basis, with my husband from 2003 through the summer of 2021.

In the past I have planned and written media campaigns for the Quannapowitt Yacht Club, the Wakefield Laugh Club, and the Wakefield Food Pantry, and designed and wrote flyers for Wakefield Food Pantry, Wakefield Farmers Market, Wakefield Housing Trust, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Wakefield and the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, also of Wakefield.

From 2016-2020, I designed and implement the weekly cooking demos at the Wakefield Farmers Market and post the results each week on WFM’s recipe website. While this site is no longer used, you can view the recipes via this temporary site.

Personal projects include preparing for the re-publication of Through the Seasons: A Collection of Herb Columns, which was previously self-published in 1993, revising and updating Wendy’s Food Blog, and working on a series of eBook and print cookbooks.