I’m a writer, editor, and speaker living in Brooklyn, New York.
I write for Yoga Journal, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health’s publications, and Turner Broadcasting’s wellness site, Upwave. I’m also the Managing Editor of Mom365.com.
My articles, essays, and posts have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Huffington Post, Women’s Health, Natural Health, Beliefnet, Vegetarian Times, and more. I used to keep a gratitude blog, wrote Yoga Journal’s NYC blog, Samadhi and the City, and co-wrote Beliefnet’s popular Fresh Living blog.
A veteran in the digital space, I started working for websites in 1999, and was Holistic Living & Blogs Editor at Beliefnet.com, which won several National Magazine Awards while I was there. I’m still editing content sites and doing things like boosting traffic; optimizing blogs, galleries, articles, and videos for SEO; and engaging audiences through various social channels. But more than applying keywords and Tweeting at the right second, I believe the real secret to crazy web traffic is to create excellent, targeted content. (Shhh…)
In print-land, I was Editor-in-Chief of Mom365 magazine (a no-longer-with-us) quarterly publication for brand-new moms) and was founding Articles Editor at Breathe, a (gone-the-way-of-the-printosaurs) yoga-inspired lifestyle magazine. And before that I was Editor of Mauiana Magazine in, yep, Maui, Hawaii, where I learned how to do everything from edit horoscopes to design ads for psychics and was partially paid in colonics.
As for the “speaker” part of my bio, I’ve given talks for the Times Square Alliance’s Yoga in Times Square event; was the keynote speaker for the Berkshire Visitors Bureau’s annual conference; and share my hard-earned wisdom in vlogs on yoga, health, and overall wellness.
A native New Yorker, I’ve also got an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. from Beloit College–plus, I’m a certified Kripalu yoga instructor.
A practitioner of yoga for nearly 20 years (and yet still, not that flexible, as demonstrated in the Pigeon at right; oh well), I’m also working on a memoir about yoga, cancer, and where Western and alternative healing modalities meet. (Wanna publish it?)
I live with my lovely family in Park Slope.
(Photo by Charles Ludeke.)
