You may know me from my work or my hobbies.
I’ve worn a lot of hats: teacher/trainer, writer/editor, websites manager, plain language expert.
Find out more about what I do and think.
See me in person
- Listen to me talk about How Bureaucratic Jargon Can Cost Lives, on the Speak Good podcast (3/20/22).
- Read the blog I wrote: Sunshine Week: How GSA Supports Open Government Principles (3/17/22)
Follow and friend me on social media
- Follow me on Twitter
- Friend me on Facebook
- Connect with me on LinkedIn
- Read my GovLoop blogs from January-March, 2016
Take my plain language training
- From Digital Gov University
- January 2016 plain language podcast: 10-Minute Tech Comm
- Govloop Academy class (free, from one of my Digital Gov webinars)
Read my articles
- “Make Your Firm’s Web Site Bios Mean Business,” Strategies: The Journal of Legal Marketing October 2004, V6, N10, pp. 12-14.
- “False Alarms: Public Safety/Private Sector: Working Together to Solve the Problem” Police Chief, June 1997, LXIV(6) pp. 44-52.
- “Spivey’s March Through Poetry,” The Northern Virginia Review, Fall 1991, pp. 19-20.