I'm a writing-editing-photographing journalist with a brown belt in marketing strategy and social media. My intellectual interests include science, travel, exploration, infectious disease, gardening and estate sales.
Chicago Home + Garden, 2011

Chicago Home + Garden, 2011

In addition to calling in art and factchecking for each story that appeared in Chicago Home + Garden magazine, I wrote up event and product pages for the front of the book. My department piece on local, design-friendly holiday markets appears in this issue for November/December, 2011.      ...
Time Out Chicago, 2011

Time Out Chicago, 2011

A reporter never flinches–even so, I occasionally blushed while reporting this story on sexy work hookups, which appeared in an October, 2011 issue of Time Out Chicago. Props to my classy editor, Marissa Conrad, who didn’t water down a shameful word.
Inside the Motor Club building

Inside the Motor Club building

The Chicago Architecture Foundation kicked off its first-ever Chicago Open House (Oct. 15 & 16) event Thursday, where architecturally important buildings are opened to the public with unprecedented free access. In honor of the occasion, the CAF invited members of the media to a special preview of the Chicago Motor...
Photo essay: Ben

Photo essay: Ben

I found Ben online as part of a group of beekeepers who are willing to come and remove writhing swarms of bees from places they shouldn’t be. Not only is he an accomplished beekeeper, but he’s studying for his master’s degree in Chinese medicine and acupuncture. I photographed him over...
Megan in (former) natural habitat: Valpairaiso, IN

Megan in (former) natural habitat: Valpairaiso, IN

On a trip through the states (from Soeul, South Korea) my good friend Megan visited her grandparents in her hometown. A quick train from Chicago and I was there to hang out with her for a day. Highlights included a hike through the frigid sand dunes and her grandmother calling...
Falun Gong Protest, May 5, 2011

Falun Gong Protest, May 5, 2011

The assignment was to photograph a news event and I happened to walk past this protest at the corner of Clark and Erie downtown. The protesters were understandable camera-shy, so backing up and layering them through the flag they carried worked pretty well.      
Lakeside, Memorial Day

Lakeside, Memorial Day

The light was gorgeous by the lake at twilight, though my focus sensor was slightly lower than it should have been when I snapped this. I captured a brief moment of calm for these kids at the lake shore.
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From Design Dose: Great Gifts I

From Design Dose: Great Gifts I

Originally published on Chicago Home + Garden‘s Design Dose blog: I love these things so much I had to re-post them here.
Sex is Science, Right?

Sex is Science, Right?

So I can legitimately call myself a science writer when I show mom this article in Time Out Chicago. It’s a teensy part of the ribald (and very intriguing) October 20 issue about the sex lives of Chicago residents- where they do it, how they do it, who’s doing it, etc. Find the original article...
Estate-sale rescue and resale: Paul McCobb planner group table

Estate-sale rescue and resale: Paul McCobb planner group table

The magazine world is many things: Exciting, ever-changing, stressful, thought-provoking, and eyeball-numbing. So far, however, it is not very profitable. But I fret not! I always have a scheme stuffed under the mattress for when I need to hustle some cash. Along with occasionally renting out my garage spot to desperate Cubs fans, I’m testing...
Reflections on divided Germany

Reflections on divided Germany

The Berlin Wall—a structure created to restrict and divide—ultimately joins two strangers across generations and nationalities.
Ghetto pickles

Ghetto pickles

So I’ve done a formal job of pickling before, but even as an unemployed housewife of sorts, I can’t force myself to spend the time necessary to properly pickle some of the garden goodness we can’t eat fast enough. So I poured some vinegar into a jar with assorted spices and veggies, plopped it into...
Start of summer: Lakeside, Memorial Day

Start of summer: Lakeside, Memorial Day

Things I love about Germany

Things I love about Germany

1. LOW-RIDER DOGS This guy, a local breed I now adore, was chilling outside the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich. He’s an avid hunter and has to be kept on a leash to keep him from chasing everything that moves.   2. GERMAN ENGINEERING One might immediately think of BMW, Porsche or Volkswagen, but I’m talking...
What happens when a great ape needs a blood transfusion?

What happens when a great ape needs a blood transfusion?

by Sarah White Originally published on Nov. 23, 2010, The Medill News Service This story also ran on NBC Chicago on Dec. 2, 2010 and was re-reported by the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune.