Growth is typically seen as a good thing. And all of the coverage I was seeing about Big Law firms entering the Nashville market, whether through new offices or acquisitions, was overwhelmingly positive. But is growth always a good thing? Surely someone suffers when the hometown law firm gets gobbled up by one with a...Read More

I’ve been a regular contributor to American Spirit, the magazine of the Daughters of the American Revolution, for nearly 20 years. One of my longest standing assignments (as in, first right of refusal and I never refuse) is a profile that appears in each issue of this bimonthly magazine. For the March/April 2023 issue, I...Read More

I’ve mentioned previously that I’ve been writing for the Daughters of the American Revolution since 2005. Whenever I say that in mixed company, people always seem confused, but it makes a lot more sense when they find out the magazine is actually published in Nashville (by the company where I had my first job after...Read More

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again—one of my favorite and most longest-standing writing gigs has been as sole author of the Today’s Daughters section in American Spirit, the award-winning magazine of the Daughters of the American Revolution.  Since 2005, I have written bimonthly profiles of individual members of the DAR whose stories...Read More

For much of the last year, I spent the majority of my work hours on one of the most important projects I’ve ever been involved in. HealthStream had just launched a nurse well-being app, Keener, and I was the person in charge of written content. I wrote headlines, scripts and captions for videos, I created...Read More