Meet Me In The Middle

I am a journalist who splits her time between Philadelphia and Northern Michigan. My columns and opinion pieces are syndicated and published in the Traverse City Record-Eagle and 70 other newspapers through the CNHI group. My columns are factual, informative, and authentic. My intent is to provide readers with thoughtful commentary, unbiased facts, and perspective addressing the day-to-day issues impacting our lives.

My goal is empowering you, my reader, to draw your own  conclusions. 

I am a writer who lives in both city and rural places. The divide and being in two different settings inform both my research and writing as I am exposed to the diverse issues impacting both populations.  I have learned that both demographics often care about the same problems but view them from different sides of the same looking glass. Frequently, I’ve observed that most people tend to land somewhere in the middle – not the extreme edges of left and right.

Living in the middle age of life has given me time to reflect deeply on the issues of our time and go beyond the the obvious. What you won’t find here is the rush to be first with the impulses that drive the 24-hour news cycle.

 

Coming from a family of journalists, getting to the heart of a story is in my blood. Current affairs, hard-won facts, and thoughtful conversation were the foundation of my family’s life.

From these roots, I took flight and lived abroad in Europe and Asia for over a decade during a time of rapid expansion. Raising two children, now young adults in the U.S. and other cultures, has been the most extraordinary experience of my life. I am grateful that these adventures continued to form me as a person and reporter.

I graduated from Denison University and worked in television news and corporate communications earlier in my career.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Tom Stoppard