Reporting & Writing

have over ten years experience as a professional writer and reporter. I have won numerous state-level journalism awards in New Mexico and Ohio and most recently used my excellent communications skills to create marketing materials, newsletter articles and website content for employers, clients and users groups.

Below, please find a sampling of my writing. More samples from my newspaper days are available on request.

A 1997 article published in Skeptical Inquirer, a national magazine championing science and reason.

Basic PC Maintenance

An article for the CDPUG newsletter

Across The Great Divide

Getting files between Macs and PCs (Part 1 of 2)

Across The Great Divide

Getting files between Macs and PCs (Part 2 of 2)

Unreal Tournament

Yeah, its a game but I think some of its technology will affect publishers too.

Getting Data From Database to DTP and the Web

I was doing it the hard way for years...

Killing Spam and Spyware

I hate spam and fear spyware, here's some programs to start protecting us.

CorelDRAW 10

Lots of excellent tweaks, few innovations, CorelRAVE is awful.

Ulead Cool3D

Create 3D text and images quickly, (relatively) easily and cheaply.

Info Accellerator & Office Accellerator

I have a love-hate-love relationship with this incredible contact manager and calendar program.

CorelDRAW 9

No great innovations from version 8 but they stole all the really cool stuff from the competition and keep Draw at the head of the pack

Freehand 9

Appearance are decieving. At first, it looks as if nothing's changed.

Astound 4.0

Offers lots of glitz in a very frustrating program.

CorelDRAW 8

Corel did something new, they actually beta-tested this product.

Issue 1Issue 2

While still in business for myself, I put out two pretty good newsletters. Issue 1 features information about color printers and Thumbs+, Issue 2 featured an article about using fractals and graphic design.