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Writer, Editor, Blogger and Editorial Consultant ... with years of experience in daily newspapers, national magazines and the web.
Most of my experience is in the area of consumer health, with an additional health policy focus, but my interests are broad.
I'm an experienced blogger, with a fondness in my heart for Wordpress. I can shoot photos in a pinch.
I’m semi-retired now, focusing primarily on where I started: weekly newspapers. I write the weekly Go Local events calendar for the Chestnut Hill Local, and occasional features.
I briefly created a Chestnut Hill-based blog before I started working for the Local. I also write for another blog of mine (ours, really … it’s a group effort) focusing on my interest in Irish culture.
One in eight women in the United States annually will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. But the death rate has fallen sharply.
When Einstein oncology nurse Liz Kerr sat down to write an ambitious three-act play about 57 Irish railroad workers and two women buried in a deep mass grave not far from the tracks in East Whiteland Township, she had an unusual muse.
If you want to know what a hospital means to a community, just consider the impact when one is suddenly closed.
Michael Ullery hails from Cumberland, Md., but comes to Chestnut Hill's new cancer center for treatment.
With the recent arrival of Dr. Joseph Friedberg at Temple Lung Center at Chestnut Hill, the community hospital now has a dedicated thoracic surgeon.
An estimated nine million Americans live with depression. And research suggests that about 30 percent suffer from treatment-resistant depression.
When it comes to ways you can celebrate yuletide festivities, the Delaware Valley presents an embarrassment of riches.
In the U.S., the average risk of a woman developing breast cancer is about 1 in 8. On the other hand, death rates have been falling steadily.
If you're a mature male, you might have experienced benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) also known as a swollen prostate.
You can hear the deep-throated whistles from far up the path leading down to Morris Arboretum's Holiday Garden Railway, a quarter mile's worth of scale-model steam and electric trains, trolleys, a miniature ski lift, bridges, houses and other buildings, all decorated with twinkling Christmas lights. Just inside the narrow winding path leading into the breathtaking...
Brendan Dwyer took his first trip to Guatemala in 2009, as part of Teens, Inc., the Chestnut Hill youth service organization founded by Jane and Dick Becker and directed by Dwyer's mother Marianne. That first journey was suggested by his older sister Meghan and inspired by another sister Caitlin, who had traveled to Guatemala with...
They might lack the grace, skill, and height of LeBron, but they more than make up for it in keen enthusiasm and infinite energy. And on this steamy Wednesday night at the Water Tower Recreation Center, one of the not yet very tall fourth and fifth graders playing half-court basketball gets lucky, successfully lofting a...