I come from a verbal family.
As a kid, I remember our dinner table debates would last long after dessert was finished. English was my favorite subject in high school. I loved reading and writing, and participating in those great philosophical discussions that Mrs. Wingler led.
Looking back, I would say that I always liked hanging around writers, and thinkers.
I was the co-editor of my sixth grade newspaper at Daniel Boone Elementary School in Chicago and assignment editor of my high school newspaper in Winnetka, Illinois.
Yadda, yadda, yadda, I graduated college and moved to California.
My husband Charles and I worked, met, and married in San Francisco. At the time I owned a marketing communications company working with clients Crown Advanced Films division of Crown Zellerbach and Handlery Hotels.
One November night, after visiting Charles’ mother in Oregon, we stopped in Ashland, a small town with amazing diversity and energy. We ate dinner upstairs in a little restaurant that overlooked Ashland’s plaza. I remember that night so clearly; in an instant we changed our lives. Within two months, we moved to Ashland, bought a house, acquired a cat or three, and have loved living and working here for the past 20 years.
I moved my marketing communications business with me to Ashland, and one of my early local projects was for the Chamber of Commerce, writing a new publication, “Living and Doing Business in Ashland.” It won the gold award that year in the “Best in the West” competition, and the publicity from the award led to my long association with Providence Medford Medical Center. Providence became my client in 1992, hired me to work for them until 2009, and again became my client shortly thereafter.
Things I love: Having dinner with friends, bike riding, snow-shoeing, irony, well-written movies with good actors, clarity, chocolate, Standing Stone Double IPA beer.
Things I hate: Reporters that don’t do their homework, media spin, incorrect grammar.
Favorite Quote: “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” – Albert Einstein