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I am always grateful that my work allows me to meet and engage with people from all walks of life and help them enhance the work they do. In 2025, I helped clients in Western Massachusetts raise [...]

I’m very proud to tell you I have succeeded in certifying Beetle Press as a woman-owned business with the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council. 

I have been so busy over the past year. Work has just kept on coming, and I have welcomed it with open arms. In the past few months, though, I’ve been excited because the deadlines began to ease [...]

When I was in sixth grade, my paternal grandmother passed away and left me her typewriter. I’d already been writing little stories in the notebook she’d given me when I was six—about my brothers, [...]

Leslie Lawrence was the founder of a marketing and advertising agency in Western Mass before she retired to volunteer and help others in her community in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. A colleague [...]

Several years ago, I worked with Gerry Hass on his book about the South End Community Health Center. The pandemic prevented him from doing a public reading when his book was published, but he was [...]

I started my career as a journalist in 1985 at what was then called the Springfield Union-News. I was a part-time correspondent, covering two small towns in Western Massachusetts. We got paid by [...]

I help clients promote news and events to help raise awareness and attract notice. I wrote a press release for neuro-artist Laura Bundersen to promote an art pop-up shop she hosted in [...]

Note: This week’s blog was written by Shannon Grossman, who was a student intern with my PR business, Beetle Press, six years ago and has been working with me on a regular basis since. Shannon is [...]

For over a year now, I have been working with Jack Milner, a client from London and the author of “Virtual Presentation Mastery.”

Kiki Keating and I arrived in the Shepherds Bush section of London on May 7, a few days before the MakiNetwork Business Media Conference was to begin. A world traveler, Kiki has been to London [...]

A year ago, I began working with Kiki Keating, the founder of KikiNetwork, a global PR company based in New Hampshire. I wanted to learn how to swim in a much bigger pond, and I have not been [...]

I connected to Adél Szegedi via my client Jack Milner as Jack had hired Adél to create illustrations for his upcoming book, Virtual Presentation Mastery. Woven through Jack’s book on how to [...]

This past year, I’ve taken on several freelance writing projects for Lisa Baker Associates, a full-service digital marketing agency that uncovers and tells a company’s unique story. [...]

I met Craig Fear in a business networking group, and after we became housemates, we also became great friends. While we no longer even live in the same state, we remain close. Craig was a skilled [...]