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If your spring cleaning has included the "40 bags in 40 days" decluttering challenge, you probably have a pile of items that need to leave your house. Sure, you could throw them away or donate them — but why not see if you can get a little cash for them? Try posting a few items on VarageSale, a buy-and-sell site that lets you do business with trusted folks in your community.

                – Smart Tips for Buying
             and Selling on VarageSale
Flour. Water. Yeast. Salt. With time and heat, a few simple ingredients can become a nourishing loaf of bread.
And a community of Catholics in Greensboro is using that bread as an ingredient in a fulfilling spiritual life.

                             – Bread for Good
We thought we’d be here until our children were surly teenagers, and I earmarked the basement bedroom as a refuge for angsty adolescents.
   So it’s not saying goodbye to our house that’s hard. It’s saying goodbye to the possibilities ...

                     – A house where you,
                                 too, can grow
Though these tools have vastly improved our access to spelling and simple grammar correction, they are far from perfect. While they make corrections in the moment, they may not help writers improve over the long term. And as the research documented here will show, AI tools require human oversight when measuring complex aspects of writing such as humor, tone, or genre.

             – An Examination of User
        Experience & AI Writing Aids
Though Alexandria’s proximity to the nation’s capital is a draw for many residents and visitors, the city offers much more, says Amy Bertsch, a public information specialist at the Office of Historic Alexandria. “It’s an independent city, a destination of its own.”

                    – Building on History
      (from a freelance contributor)
1 / Marketing Content
A series of three sponsored posts on Columbia SC Moms Blog:
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2 / Features & Reporting
  • Bread for Good: Local bakery, Greensboro parishioners unite over 'fasting bread' in solidarity with Syrian war victims. Catholic News Herald, September 13, 2013 | PDF (page 6)

  • Finding faith amid upheaval: Greensboro parish welcomes Burmese refugees. Catholic News Herald, December 16, 2011 | PDF (page 8)

3 / Essays & Blog Posts
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4 / Graduate Work
Papers and projects created while pursuing a master's degree in English at UNC-Charlotte:
  • English 5181: Creating User Documents (spring 2023): In the final project for this course, I created a webpage showcasing three assignments from the semester: a tutorial sheet for Adobe Acrobat; a usability study for a university library app; and a video tutorial for the app ToDoist.
  • English 6116: Introduction to Technical/Professional Writing (fall 2023): My research paper for this course examined the history and efficacy of spellcheck and Grammarly. This paper will influence my master's capstone project, to be completed in December 2025.
5 / Editorial Projects
As an editor with the Destination Publishing Group at Pace Communications, I spearheaded city profile sections that ran in the inflight magazines of Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, US Airways, and Southwest Airlines. These pieces of custom content met advertiser/client objectives while upholding editorial quality. Leveraging quality writing, beautiful images, and skilled art direction, our team produced sections that were truly worthy of the cities they profiled. 
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Overall, I planned and managed more than 20 sections, but here are a few of the most memorable:​
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