About

Columns:
  • Food, Wine, Health, Fitness, Architecture and General Features
Blogs/Podcasts:
One-Act Plays:
  • Millennium Dreams
  • Wind River Redemption (produced at Elite Theatre)
  • Finding Ojai (produced at Santa Paula Theater)
  • Motel 101 (Writer's Digest award winner)
Film:
  • Writer, Producer and Director of the 42-minute documentary: The Price of Paradise
Publishing Credits:
  • Ventura County Star
  • Santa Barbara Independent
  • Ventura County Reporter
  • Ojai Valley News
  • Sierra Club's Condor Call
  • Ojai Valley Visitors Guide
  • Santa Barbara Wine & Dine Magazine
  • Inside Santa Barbara Magazine
  • Caring Magazine, a publication of Community Memorial Health Systems
  • Ventana Monthly
  • SierraStyle
  • Edible Ojai
  • 805 Living
  • Ojai Quarterly
Awards:
  • Writer's Digest 74th Annual Writing Competition
  • Best Feature Documentary, Oxnard Independent Film Festival
  • Community Access Partners Television CAPPIE
  • Writer's Digest 83rd Annual Writing Competition
Affiliations:
  • California Association of Public Information Officers
  • Former Vice President, Community Access Partners Television
  • Wine Presenter, 2009 Ventura County Women's EXPO & 2009 Ventura County Fair
  • Wine Judge, 2009, 2010 & 2011 Ventura County Fair
Memberships:
  • National Writers Union
  • Romance Writers of America
  • Greater Los Angeles Writers Society
  • Book Publishers of Southern California
Conferences:
  • North Coast Redwoods Writers’ Conference
  • Santa Barbara Writers Conference
  • Southern California Writers’ Conference
  • West Coast Writers Conference
  • Ventura Book Festival
  • Ojai WordFest (where I annually host Happy Hour with Books)