Selected writing samples
Click on any of the links below to view selected samples of my writing and editing, or contact me to get more information about your specific writing and editing needs.
Magazines
easyJet Traveller
British Airways High Life
Inside Rotterdam
Unearth Women
PAX Magazine
- Sea, Smoke and Fire:
The Ancient Seafood Traditions of Ise-Shima, Japan
(2017 TMAC award for best food or drink feature) - Where the Wild Things Are: Thailand’s Elephant Hills camps bring visitors to the heart of the rainforest
(2015 TMAC award for outstanding achievement in an environmental and responsible travel story)
S-Magazine
- Five Wellness Treatments to Up Your Spa Travel Game
- Apres All Day: Iceland’s Geothermal Pools
- Golden Girl: An interview with Olympic ski-cross gold medalist Marielle Thompson
Hitched Magazine
Ageless Living Magazine
- Phoenix, Rising
- Las Islas Marietas: A Surprising Eco-Adventure on Mexico’s Pacific Coast
- Travel Like Royalty on Portugal’s ‘Coast of Kings’
Newspapers
The Vancouver Courier
- An Islay Adventure on Vancouver Island
- Street Art Goes Mainstream in Houston, Texas
- No Limes, Please: Slow Sipping with a Tequila Sommelier
- Life in Kerrisdale
- Pleasant Mount Pleasant
The Globe and Mail
- Waiter, There’s an Egg in My Wine
- Signing Off On Married Me
- Leapin’ Lizards: Too Close to Nature
- Taken Prisoner by the Havana Loo Lady
Online
Time Out
Read the rest of my work for Time Out
World Footprints
- The Saanich Peninsula: A Family Farm Haven on Vancouver Island (2019 TMAC award, second place in the Best Coverage of a Host Destination category)
- Shooting Stars and Shay in Jordan’s Dana Biosphere Reserve
Ensemble Travel
G Adventures
- 8 Czech UNESCO Sites and Traditions Beyond Prague
- 5 Dutch Foods that Make No Sense in English
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20 Superlatives for the 20-Year Sisterhood between Whistler and Karuizawa
BCLiving
Roads & Kingdoms
- Finding the Perfect Cocktail and the Perfect Retirement Goals in One Day
- A Tiny Beer is the Perfect Escape Hatch for Bad Bars and Bad Dates
- There Are No Polite Canadians When It Comes to Grape-Stomping Glory
Canada.com
PAX News
- Copenhagen sees tourism boost from IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship
- Tourism thrives on openness to the world: Merkel opens ITB Berlin
- On the Trudeaus’ trail in Ise-Shima, Japan
Hootsuite Blog
Social media strategy, advice, and tips for the world’s most widely used social relationship platform. Read all my posts here.
YP Dine
A Yellow Pages micro-site/app featuring insider tips for great things to see, eat, and do in Vancouver. Read all my posts here.
REW.ca
The online arm of Vancouver’s largest real estate newspaper.
- Five Great Things about Living in Sechelt
- Five Great Things about Living in Richmond
- Five Great Things about Living in North Vancouver
- Five Great Things about Living in Oakridge
Books
- Fodor’s Vancouver and Victoria
Role: Guidebook updater
- Inspired Cooking featuring recipes from 21 of Canada’s top chefs
Role: Copy editor
- Go UnDiet: 50 Small Actions for Lasting Weight Loss
by Gloria Tsang, RD
Role: Editor
- Dare to Dance Again: Steps from the Psalms When Life Trips You Up by Cathy Mogus
Role: Copy editor