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| Professional/Personal Overview |
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I specialize in adventure travel, luxury travel, skiing and golf, and excel at creating imaginative work while meeting tight deadlines. I am About.com's Guide to Adventure Travel (www.adventuretravel.about.com ) and co-author of Frommer's 500 Adrenaline Adventures. I am co-author (with my husband) of the Colorado & Denver Day Trips Travel Guide for iPhone, iPad and Android Smartphones. My background includes 20plus years of writing editorial and advertorial articles for national and regional magazines, Web sites, and newspapers including Travel+Leisure, The New York Times, Texas Monthly, Denver Magazine, Colorado Avid Golfer and Dallas Morning News. |
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| Work Info |
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Expertise |
| Content Editor (online) |
7 Years |
| Editor |
20 Years |
| Writer |
20 Years |
Specialty |
| Lifestyle |
20 Years |
| Sports & Recreation |
20 Years |
| Travel |
20 Years |
Total Media Industry Experience
20 Years |
Media Client List (# assignments
last 2 yrs)
AdventureTravel.About.com (11+), Passport Newsletter (3-5), Texas Monthly Special Sections (3-5), Broadmoor Magazine (1-2), Inspirato Magazine (1-2) |
Other Work History
My background includes the creation of special sections, guide books, and stints as co-owner/editor-in-chief of The Snow Industry Letter (a $300-a-year subscription-based weekly email/fax newsletter covering the business side of the snowsports industry), editor of the American Express Golf Annual and western editor of SKI Magazine. I have created editorial copy for 4- to 20-page special advertising sections about skiing, luxury travel, families and other topics for The New York Times, Travel + Leisure and Texas Monthly. I have been managing editor of an annual magazine, Peaks Escapes, and an annual hard-cover book, Discover Utah, both published by Abarta Media. My work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, and on many websites. |
Computer Skills
Word, Wordperfect |
Equipment
Desktop with Windows 7, laptop with Windows XP and wireless connection. Digital camera capable of taking newspaper and magazine quality images. |
References
Excellent references available upon request |
Awards
North American Snowsports Journalists Harold Hirsch--newspaper. Colorado Ski Country USA Freelancers award. |
Associations
Society of American Travel Writers.
North American Snowsports Journalists Association (former president) |
Other
I can be reached directly via email address at LFskitravel@earthlink.net or 303-697-6183.
My expertise about snow sports comes from teaching skiing for ten years, ten years as western editor of SKI Magazine and co-owner of an email newsletter for the snowsports industry.
Golf is an addiction so writing about it is an excuse to play more.
I've traveled to more than 50 countries for work or pleasure. I've spent considerable time in Santa Fe and Taos New Mexico because we collect Native American pottery and art works. Places visited in recent years include resorts in Colorado, California, Idaho and Utah, plus the countries of Scotland, Canada, Vietnam, Peru, Ireland, Thailand, Portugal, South Africa, and Mexico.
Additional works samples are available upon request.
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Freelancer Availability
I freelance full-time. I live near Denver, CO. I am willing to travel anywhere. I have a driver's license. I have access to a car. |
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| Work Samples |
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(About.com)
I am the guide (content provider) for About.com's Adventure Travel website. Content includes information for travelers seeking adventure trips worldwide. Topics include the ABCs of adventure travel, active sports adventures & exotic adventures. About.com is part of The New York Times Company.
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Online articles |
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(http://adventuretravel.about.com, 6/18/2013)
Visiting Cuba legally on cultural exchange trips gives you access to musicians, historians who lived through the revolution, seniors and even school children. There's always time built in to visit with locals, because that's what a people-to-people trip to Cuba is all about.
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(www.adventuretravel.about.com, 4/25/2013)
Skiing down the Tasman Glacier on New Zealand's South Island imprints pictures in your mind. I still visualize slithering into an ice cave, where the sun was shining through icy walls and our bodies created shadow patterns on the floor. I still feel of the crusty snow, the crisp air....
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(Gadling.com, 12/26/2012)
Twist your head to the right, your body to the left and wiggle through the crack, urged the guide leading us through Modric Cave in Croatia. Pretending I was a pretzel worked.
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(Gadling.com, 9/3/2012)
"A hint of chocolate, a whisper of citrus," he tells the barista. He's a foodie, so unlike me, he actually smells these aromas. This isn't a wine tasting - I'm at a coffee cupping in a coffee lab in Bogota, Colombia. Coffee cupping is a ritual taken very seriously by food and wine geeks, and an intr
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(www.adventuretravel.about.com, 4/22/2012)
The rocks our jeep dislodged tumbled down a slope so steep than I couldn't see them fall and didn't hear them land. We were on the last part of a jeep tour in Israel's Negev desert and the Dead Sea was in view, very far below us. The trail, if you could call it one....
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(www.adventuretravel.about.com, 12/1/2011)
Lying down, not a muscle twitches, as the lioness’ eyes are riveted on the antelope grazing 300 yards away. They can't see the lion who is hunting them, but we can because we are....
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(www.adventuretravel.about.com, 4/28/2011)
"You're doing great," said my friend hanging on the snow wall near me. "Remember to keep at least three points in contact with the snow." It was the first time I'd scaled a steep cliff. Maybe inching up Tuckerman Ravine's Headwall, as skis and boots hooked to my backpack tried to push me back down..
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(www.adventuretravel.aout.com, 1/30/2010)
Until recently, I thought a vacation in Cancun or the Riviera Maya on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula was just playing golf, sunbathing and snorkeling. Not so. Here you can dive or snorkel in cenotes, swim or raft in underground rivers, steer ATVs or amphibious buggies in the jungles and ride zip lines.
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(American Eagle Latitudes Magazine, 12/1/2011)
Romance on the slopes and during the apres-ski hours in Vail and Beaver Creek, two of Colorado's top ski towns. Where to stay, where to dine, beat-the-crowd ski/ride tips.
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(Broadmoor Magazine, 1/1/2011)
Afterward, we jointly agreed we had been treated like royalty. The staff at the Broadmoor didn't seem to care that they had never seen our faces in People Magazine, our jewelry didn't scream "bling," or that we weren't in the 7th of our 15 minutes of fleeting fame. Starts on Page 80.
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(Saturday Evening Post, 12/26/2008)
Although ads in ski and snowboard magazines suggest that everyone on the slopes is younger than 35, the reality is that a significant portion of the skiing population (and even a number of snowboarders) is older. Here's a guide to how they cruise the slopes.
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(Luxury Travel Advisor, 5/9/2008)
When the ski slopes wear summer green, restaurateurs pull tables onto patios, mountain bikes get hooked to the side of ski lifts carrying T-shirt-clad vacationers and ski-turned-summer resorts have a relaxed aura. Here are three resorts—Sun Valley, Beaver Creek and Park City—where there’s even more
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(Colorado Avid Golfer, 8/1/2005)
Golf Balls and Musket Balls Fly Across History in Colonial Williamsburg:
English infantry shooting cannonballs from what is now the Gold Course's 18th green could have obliterated Raleigh Tavern, where Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and other argued over plitical issues while drinking ....
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(2/15/2011)
"Check this twitpic of me floating in powder. U just snagged freshies on the Bonzai? Meet u up top in 10." Skiers and snowboarders with smart phones are tapping away to get the latest scoop on weather, which trails are groomed, and arranging to connect with friends, all while riding ski lifts.
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Advertorial/Advertising Sections |
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(The New York Times, 5/15/2005)
Editorial copy for special section about family travel.
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Book |
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(Frommer guidebooks, 4/12/2010)
Frommer's 500 Best Adrenaline Adventures features high-octane experiences for both passionate travelers and adventure seekers. From dare-devil sports to hair-raising haunted houses to wacky and obscure festivals and races. I was responsible for 200 of the adventures.
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(App for iPhone, iPad & Android, 7/11/2012)
An insider's travel guide for newcomers and visitors eager to explore Colorado, experience the best of Denver, easily visit nearby towns and see the Rockies. Available for for iPhone/iPad/iTouch and Android smartphones.
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