About me
While experimenting my way through organic chemistry and physics in college, I never dreamed that a few years later I’d begin a career writing about wine, food, home and garden for national magazines. Slated to enter medical school at the University of South Dakota, my life took a different turn late into my senior year of college. I must have been writing too many papers for my English courses, because I decided to become a writer instead of a doctor.

Of course, I always thought as an M.D. I’d be penning pieces for the New England Journal of Medicine, so life hasn’t dealt me a completely different set of cards. Besides, gardens are biology, and cooking and wine are definitely part science.

Now I happily spend my working hours writing stories and creating recipes for publication instead of prescribing antibiotic for the fifteenth ear infection of the day. A lot of people tell me they can't believe I get to do this for a living. I couldn't agree more.