Features, Essays and Poetry
Long-form features for the Mayo Clinic, Fairview Health System, Lawson, and Primarius Promotion published in internal and external magazines, print and online newsletters, and marketing magazines. Contributed personal essays to Mpls.St. Paul Magazine, Minnesota Parent and The Phoenix; and poetry to the Great River Review, Free Verse, Powderhorn Writers Festival, Southwest Journal and the anthologies Between the Lakes, and Seasons. Contact me if you would like full texts of any of these stories.
WRITER
Mayo Today
Cover feature, Pictures of Caring, for Mayo Clinic's internal magazine.
The Way We Care
Among a team of writers who interviewed subjects and then contributed stories to this Mayo Clinic soft cover coffee table book for external distribution.
Strengthening Our Communities
After interviewing subjects, contributed concept and wrote 3,000-word National Geographic-style essay for Fairview Health System annual report; produced with new and library photography.
Primarius Promotion: LifeTouch
Personal essays for Primarius Promotion client LifeTouch Photography (now part of Shutterfly) print marketing magazine.
Lawson Newsletter
Phone interviews; writing to word count; uploaded stories, headlines and photos to online publishing template for emailed newsletter.
Improper Conduct
Personal essay for Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine.
Between the Lakes
Nine poems included in anthology; Trolley Car Press.
DRAGONFLY
The boy says he loves
dragonflies – elegant and
earnest; that dragonfly esprit.
He follows in the slipstream
behind his uncle down to the water's edge,
watching the man's hands on
rope and board, readying the boat.
He knows he's going somewhere.
He looks at his own small hands.
Inside his body, little hesitations
have come to live like small animals.
And what he thought was easy is now near
cliff and rock, with the sea crashing and racing.
He searches the eyes of this man,
looking for something alive, some way
through this heaving of desire and fear.
The man says he knows this boy.