About Me

Appreciating life in the 505 with its choice mountain biking and cycling trails, impossibly blue skies, and a peach tree in my back yard. I'm a freelance writer, interviewer and group fitness instructor based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I specialize in athlete and professional profiles, interviews, and sports and fitness features.

My high points thus far are interviews with US Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender Mike Richter, Hockey Hall of Fame-er Bobby Orr, UFC pro Keith Jardine (the "Dean of Mean"), cycling team RadioShack's Chris Horner as well as Beijing Olympians Geoff Kabush, Joey Hagerty and John Gall. My strength - my passion - is interviewing people about their lives, their sport, their work. I've profiled a district judge, firefighter, air traffic controller, the mayor, a couple film critics and a hockey referee among others, and interviewed NRDC senior scientist Allen Hershkowitz.

I've been published in Women's Health, The Hockey News, and Rugby Magazine and i'm a frequent contributor to New Mexico Business Weekly.

Yes. I'm one of those people who swear, one day soon, my friggin' book will be published (working on the rewrite).

I spend most of my free time mountain biking (since 1997). I was featured in "Women Who Move" (second photo is from series used for magazine) in the March/April 2007 issue of Her Sports + Fitness. I've been cycling since winning a race-ready Trek in a Tour de France sweepstakes (see Women's Health, July/August 2007). Seeing a high-profile cycling race in-person is bizarre and wonderful. I was at the Tour de Georgia in 2005, Giro d' Italia in 2006 and Tour of California in 2009.

In April, 2011, I graduated (woohoo!) with a Fitness Technician certificate, completing an internship with Sympatico Cycling Studio. I've retired from both co-ed hockey (1998-2009) and officiating (USA Ice Hockey official 2001-09) to get a good night's sleep and teach group exercise classes (since April, 2009).

Other thrilling experiences include my second big radio segment as a guest on Albuquerque's 101.7 FM The Team way back in October 2008. I keep the faith that one day, Jim Rome will call. (Dream big, eh?)