About Me

Profile Public relations and communications professional. Passionate about sports, photography, travel, friends and family. Minnesota native, looking for where life will take me next.

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary." --aaron rose

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Goals for 2010

  1. Stop biting my nails.
  2. Read more.
  3. Take more pictures.
  4. Commit to exercise.
  5. Be a tourist in MSP.
  6. Build and grow relationships.

Doorbusters aren’t a Deal Breaker

With the holiday weekend getting closer and closer (11 hours, 10 minutes to be exact) consumers will be inundated with fliers and ads announcing this year’s coveted Black Friday deals. Several new stories this year have investigated the legitimacy of advertised deals and the likelihood of consumers actually getting their hands on the 50″ [...]

Breaking News: Eggo Shortage?

If you aren’t familiar with EggoGate09, you clearly haven’t been watching TV or using any form of social media. Search for “Eggos” in Google and you’ll get pages of news stories and blog posts mentioning the shortage (that is apparently the first sign of the end of days). Typing “Eggos” into Twitter Search pulls more [...]

Journalism AND Social Media

If anyone is keeping track, this is BY FAR the fastest blog post I have ever put together – so please keep that in mind as you read.

After returning to my desk from a delicious lunch, which included Davanni’s pizza, it was pointed out to me by @ellejam that I was quoted in a tech [...]

Maintaining Traditions

With the holidays quickly approaching, the cooking and baking of traditional Scandinavian foods begins – for my family at least. This weekend my grandma, aunt and cousin will be making lefse and it got me thinking: Are we losing family-based traditions in today’s retail world?

Traditions have been continued in our family for generations. Lefse, lutefisk [...]

Finding my voice

As I start out on the path to becoming a blogger, I have been reading blog post after blog post… about blogging, desperate to find the post that would turn on the switch in my head, making me into an instant blogger. The switch hasn’t gone off yet, but I did come across a post [...]

What about my Friends

A few weeks ago, I traveled to New York City to visit a good friend from high school who had recently moved. I used the time in transit to catch up on my favorite magazines, including Cosmopolitan and Glamour. Flipping through the articles, quizzes and photos, I was reminded of a conversation I had months [...]