Holly Rossi

Arlington, MA USA
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Professional Experience

I'm a prolific writer, reporter, and editor with more than 15 years of experience covering parenting, health, yoga, religion, and music for online and print media. On everything from food to fitness to books to religious rituals, my career is a search for the answer to the eternal question, "What is the meaning of this?"

Expertise

Editor
10 Years
Writer
18 Years
Reporter
18 Years

Specialty

Family, Children & Teenagers
4 Years
Religion
18 Years
Health
5 Years

Industries


Newspaper - National
18 Years
Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
10 Years
Online/new media
13 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

18 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Mom365.com (10+), Parents.com (10+), Publishers Weekly (10+), Tablet Magazine (3-5), Kveller.com (3-5), Boston Globe Sunday Magazine (1-2)

Other Work History

Senior editor (Health) for Beliefnet.com, premiere faith and inspiration website, 2003-2010.

Foreign Language Skills

Some Spanish and Hebrew

Computer Skills

MS Office, Movable Type, Typepad, some HTML

Equipment

Digital audio recorder, Canon EOS 7D

Associations

Religion Newswriters Association

Showcase

General

7 Amazing Prenatal Yoga Benefits
(Parents.com 3/1/2014)
An introduction to prenatal yoga and how it can help expectant mothers prepare both their bodies and minds for childbirth and parenthood.
The BRCA Gene: A Positive Test, a Personal Choice
(The Forward 3/17/2008)
If a blood test revealed that you were likely to contract the same cancer that painfully and violently killed your mother, what would you do? A review of Jessica Queller's "Pretty Is What Changes" follows her journey to answer this question for herself.
Yoga for a Healthy Lower Back: A Practical Guide to Developing Strength and Relieving Pain
(Shambhala Publications 8/1/2014)
Trade paperback book, co-authored with yoga teacher Liz Owen, aims to guide readers toward lower back health with anatomical illustrations, photographed yoga poses, and eminently readable text. Author and yoga luminary Patricia Walden calls the book "a clear and insightful program."
The Long Search for a Comfortable Position for a Jew Who Practices Yoga
(Tablet Magazine 11/13/2013)
Personal essay about my experience practicing yoga as a Jew who is concerned with how I behave in "spiritual" contexts that are not from my own faith. In other words, here's why I don't bow in yoga class.
10 Ways to Heal from Birth Trauma
(Mom365.com 3/1/2014)
Gallery of tips for mothers whose labor and delivery experiences turned from joyful to traumatic because of medical or emotional factors.
21 Simple Ways to Be Healthy
(Beliefnet.com 11/1/2009)
Regardless of your definition of "healthy living," you can get started on the road to wholeness right now with these easy, fun tips.
Little Folk
(Boston Globe Sunday Magazine 8/25/2014)
Profile of Boston-area singer-songwriter Alastair Moock, whose children's music career took an undesired but ultimately deeply meaningful turn when his 6-year-old daughter was diagnosed with leukemia. This article was the magazine's cover story.
Church Planting (for Real)
(PurposeDriven.com 5/20/2009)
For reasons ranging from creation care to responsibility for “the least of these” to community spirit to evangelism, churches—urban and suburban alike—are taking the garden metaphor literally, planting vegetable gardens on their property, nearby community gardens, vacant lots, or donated land.
9 Ways to Keep Your Family Safe at Amusement Parks
(Parents.com 6/1/2014)
A service-oriented article advising parents on concrete ways they can protect their families on amusement rides and at theme parks.
This Is Radical Islam?
(Slate.com 3/5/2007)
A review of the book "My Year Inside Radical Islam," which in my opinion wasn't so extreme after all.