My writing career spans almost 30 years and has included newspaper journalism, advertising, public relations, marketing (print and interactive), magazine features and blogging. Below is just a small sample of what I have written. I am in the process of scanning other materials and adding to this online portfolio. If you are looking for something specific and don't see an example of it here, please ask!
It’s Friday night, and Season’s Harvest Café in Cypress, Texas, is bustling. Dust from the gravel driveway creates a cloud that sparkles in the headlights of...
Can you imagine what it must be like to attend a royal dinner party? If it were me, I would feel pretty intimidated. Questions would swirl through my mind li...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once famously noted that “the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.” Nearly 50 years lat...
Most people can’t say their town was simultaneously put on the map and almost wiped off it in the same day. Yet that’s just what happened to the tiny communi...
I had lunch on my patio today. As I sat down at the table, I instantly felt relaxed. I basked in the warmth of the sunshine, which was offset by a cool breez...
It was a hot day, even for October. As the temperature rose into the upper 80s, Rich Reaves, the youth pastor at Houston’s Lifepath Church, looked across the...
I hadn’t looked at my high school yearbooks in years. There was no need. That was then. This is now. I had moved on. Or so I thought. As I reached up into t...
“It got quiet … and then the gates of hell opened.” Maura Pavlock was walking out of Navasota Junior High, after her son’s eighth grade graduation, when all...
Recently, I was awakened in the middle of the night by what sounded like pebbles being thrown at my bedroom window. When I looked outside, I saw that it wasn...
Every day for five years, youth pastor Rich Reaves has arrived to work in the shadow of a cross and a crescent moon. There, at his Houston church, he and sen...
When retired teacher and Livingston resident Sylvia Ortiz says she believes in going the extra mile to help others, she means it. And this past week, she pro...
It is day three of Houston's Great Flood of 2016. The TV newscasts look the same. Picture upon picture, video upon video, of water. Everywhere. In the street...
It was a rough night. I tossed and turned, unable to get comfortable. My head was aching and my heart was pounding, as the thoughts continued to whirl around...
It was a first for me. I was not one of those people with “dentist phobia.” Growing up, our family dentist was also our family friend. I had my teeth filled ...
Big data is a big buzz word in business technology these days, but it’s a concept not widely understood and the name alone has many small business owners ask...
“You know, everything would be better if I could just be king of the world,” my husband said with a little grin and a twinkle in his eye. Ah yes, we all thi...
At a recent technology conference, one of the sessions was titled “Your Workplace is No Longer a Place.” The speaker made an excellent point, which was that ...
(click link for full text) Tears say “I need.” From the moment we are born, we need. We need food. We need clothing and shelter. We need comfort and care ...
Data mining. It’s been likened to panning for gold. You’re sifting through massive amounts of information for some key nuggets that will help you make better...
Move over e-commerce. There’s an even bigger boy in town. Yes, folks, it’s true. Space commerce is ready for lift off. While still in its early stages of d...
