Essays, Commentary and Awards

Essay

“A Book Club Visit to Main Street: One Reader’s Unsettling Journey.” The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Spring 2014.

Letters/ Remembrances on National Public Radio

Peg Bracken and my mom:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15926821

On the boardwalk in Santa Cruz:

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139558709/letters-from-listeners

Awards

Bronze award, Excellence in Writing, Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) (shared with Rita Weighill) for viewbook, Park University, 2011.

Served as writer and editor on teams that won 21 local, regional and national awards from CASE (including Publications Sweepstakes Award), the National Council of Marketing and Public Relations, and the Omaha Federation of Advertising, 1984-1992

Honorable mention from Writers Digest Writing Competition in 2001 (Inspirational category) and in 1998 (Children’s Fiction category)