I tell the stories of the people and places of the South.
For more than three decades, I have been lucky to be paid to write about offbeat people, places, and things. I’ve explored country music hot spots, public stadium financing, and the market for Frank Lloyd Wright ephemera. An award-winning freelance editor and writer, I have covered road trips, pet-friendly travel, personal finance, startup businesses, entrepreneurship women’s health, gardening, standup paddling, and everything in between for publications ranging from Condé Nast Traveler to Fortune to Preservation to AARP to the Nashville Scene to Rolling Stone Country. I author guidebooks under the Moon imprint.
A native of Boise, Idaho, and a former resident of Chicago, I now live in Nashville, Tennessee, where I report on and write about what makes Music City special. I also spend time in Memphis, Chattanooga, The Mississippi Delta, Gatlinburg, and The Great Smoky Mountains, Little Rock, and wherever else my assignments take me.
Subjects
Paddleboarding, Southern Travel, Sustainable Travel, Historic Preservation, Vegetarian Food and Drink
Skills
Writing Credits
(Business and finance): Crain’s Chicago Business, Independent Banker, Entrepreneur, Fortune, Worth, and others; (travel) Condé Nast
Traveler, National Geographic, Preservation, Time Out, The Tennessean; (food) PUNCH, Wine Enthusiast, and others; (health and
women’s interest) Prevention, Woman’s Day, Health, Real Simple, Better Homes & Gardens, and others; (general interest
magazines) Kveller, Rolling Stone Country, No Depression, Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Nashville Scene, and others.
Book Credits
It’s Her Story: Irena Sendler (2023), 52 Things to Do in Nashville (2022), Moon Tennessee (2013, 2016, 2019, 2023, 2025), Moon Nashville (2013, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 205), Moon Nashville to New Orleans Road Trip, a guide to the Natchez Trace Parkway (2018, 2021), The Dog Lover’s Companion to Chicago (2003, 2007), VegOut! Vegetarian Guide to Chicago (2005), Moon Memphis (2020)
Awards, Honors, Appointments
American Society of Journalists and Authors; American Society of Business Publication Editors; Dog Writers Association of America; Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalism; and others.
As author, unless indicated otherwise.
“The Hermitage Hotel is really a character in the story of suffrage. It served a bigger purpose than a venue,” explains Carole Bucy, the county historian and a professor at Volunteer State Community College. Bucy has spent considerable time researching the city and state’s connection to the women’s suffrage movement, particularly leading up to the 2020 centennial of ratification. “I cannot think of another hotel in Tennessee that has the history it has.”
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