Welcome. I’m a writer, model, marathoner, and mama. When I discovered an obvious need in the world for delicious, lickable (that’s LICKable, not likable [though often lickable text is, in fact, likable]) writing, words, copy, and text of all shapes, forms and iterations, I jumped right in.
I have a Master of Arts in English and was a professor of English for three years before I launched my own commercial freelance writing business in 2007.
I originally wrote this piece for The Mennonite. It chronicles the Songs of My Life and includes a link to my Spotify account where you can listen to each song…if you dare. 1. Dolly Parton, “Wildflowers” When I was growing up my parents had records. My dad loved country music—old country like Kris Kristofferson. When he got the 1987 Trio album that featured Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, I was mesmerized. Three bold and beautiful women singers? I was in. I listened to this album over and over and would often stare… Read More
I wrote this post for my first contribution to the enough blog community…check out how Warren Buffett changed me. Welcome! To me. I’m new here at enough. and interested in exploring and dissecting and destroying and welcoming and rolling my eyes at and being slayed by all things “enough.” in my life. Recently I wrote The World’s Longest To-Do List. And I was proud of it. What? Proud?! I know, sad, right? I had written down my list of tasks to complete in 15-minute increments, because, you know, I have all sorts of chill… Read More
At the beginning of 2016 I launched a full-fledged writing agency called Cicada as I am working on being a leader—essentially creating opportunities to lead instead of waiting around for someone in front of me to tap me for those roles. I decided that if I’m going to be a leader I had better just turn around and tap myself. But something interesting happened when I turned around to tap myself. I saw leaders behind me. Not people behind me in terms of experience or education but in terms of the leaders… Read More
Claire DeBerg // Writer 