In the summer of 2000, I was a struggling-to-make-ends-meet newspaper reporter when I received my first magazine travel assignment. It wasn’t big or glamorous, but I felt like I’d won the lottery. I was asked to visit a Vermont ski resort to take a mountain-biking...

“I spent 34 years saving lives. Now I’m saving mine.” This is how I explain my transition from full-time registered nurse to travel writer.  The transition didn’t happen overnight. But the moment I realized that travel writing was my answer to retirement and the...

Testifying before important legislative committees, meeting with politicians, organizing grassroots activists groups… when I first became a lobbyist, it was exciting.  But as the years wore on and I got a peek behind the curtain, I didn’t like what I saw; politics is...

Last summer, I had the honor of judging the Best Responsible Tourism Story Award for a certain country’s society of travel writers. I had been invited to do this by an editor I work with and who also happens to be vice president of the society. I noticed something...