I'm a reader, writer, researcher and editor. A boundless newshound, that's what I am, an inveterate journalist, a
life-long curious person. She was interested in the world around her. That's how I want to be remembered. Will they say that I am smart and funny? Slightly self-effacing? That I play the piano (or at least try to) that I love my son? I hope so.
During my 14 years as a Correspondent for Newsweek Magazine, I covered hundreds of stories—from the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 through the oil spill in Valdez, Alaska in 1989. My favorite assignments were always profiles. They were the most memorable.
Will I ever forget when Julia Child told me she used Betty Crocker Potato Buds in her gnocchi? Or that astronaut Sally Ride has a double degree from Stanford in English Lit and astrophysics. I often repeat a saying that tennis star Martina Navratilova told me—one that her father would tell her when she was a girl growing up in Czechoslovakia. "Do you know the difference between involvement and commitment," Martina recalled. "Think of ham and eggs. The chicken is involved, the pig is committed."
I am a mother, a friend, sister and appreciator of music. I've been writing profiles for over 30 years. People profiles, business profiles, obituaries. She looked for meaning in life, the secrets of success and words to live by, by looking at the world through the eyes of other people.
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