My essay about working as an AI trainer was published in PROVOKED magazine. Read it here.
Some people bloom early, like daffodils and tulips. Others, like asters, bloom late. But the truly blessed are perennials who, like magnolias, blossom again and again. When I launched the HealthBeat newsletter for MetLife in 1994, I transitioned from my freelance world of writing whatever I could for whoever would hire me to researching and writing about my passion: health. MetLife distributed the newsletter to customers who had a money market life insurance settlement product with the company.…
During the pandemic lockdown, I began spending a lot of time at Indraloka, an animal sanctuary that is home to more than 200 farm animals of all species. Back then, the sanctuary was relocating from way out in the boondocks of rural Northeast Pennsylvania to a 100-acre farm a mere twelve miles from downtown Scranton, where I live. We moved the animals little by slowly and for the first month or so, residents of the main barn included…
