Experience

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  The Baltimore Sun

  • United States
  • Newspaper Publishing
  • 400 - 500 Employee

  • Columnist

    • Jul 1993 - Present

    I have written twice a week for the Op-Ed pages of The Sun since 2009, writing about politics and national affairs, as well as more personal essays. In addition, I continue to write lifestyle stories for The Sun's food, travel and home sections and The Sun's quarterly magazine.

  • Sportswriter

    • Feb 1979 - Jul 1993

    Hired by The Sun as one of the first full-time woman sportswriters in the country. Working as a feature/color writer, I covered 4 Super Bowls, 2 World Series, NBA Championships, Sugar Bowl, U.S. Open (Golf); U.S. Open (Tennis); America's Cup of yachting; Triple Crown horse racing; NFL Colts; MLB Orioles.

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  Baltimore Sun

  • Columnist

    • Jul 1993 - Present

    During my time as one of two lead columnists in The Sun's feature sections, I wrote primarily about my life as a wife and working mother of school aged children, while also contributing feature stories to the home, food and travel sections of The Sun and to the Perspective section of the Sunday Sun.

  • blogger at Garden Variety

    • Apr 2009 - Sep 2011

    I wrote and edited Garden Variety, The Sun's garden blog, for three years, posting as often as three to five times a day.

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  Baltimore Sun

  • Book Author

    • May 1998 - May 2001

    Author of a collection of essays titled: Motherhood is a Contact Sport 1998

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  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  • Pittsburgh, Pa.

  • copy editor

    • Jan 1978 - Dec 1978
    • Pittsburgh, Pa.

    edited copy, wrote headlines, and proof-read pages for the news desk.

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  Associated Press

  • Reporter

    • 1973 - 1977

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  Pittsburgh Press

  • Internship

    • Jun 1971 - Sep 1971