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I am a professional with over 20 years' experience in the health care sector. I am told my research skills are top notch and that I can distill quite complicated concepts into plain English. I have built a fairly successful career. 

But a few years ago, I took up writing again--something I had not done seriously for eons. And discovered I still loved it. I sent my work to GoNomad and Inside Sacramento and discovered that people want to hear my stories. I also started writing for and coordinating my neighborhood newsletter, the River Park Review.

I think this combination of good writing and research combined with my ability to explain complicated concepts in simple terms may well make me the right person to tell a meaningful story.

Recent Articles

The Immigrant Gaze •

Bullies, Bad Words, and My Cousin the English Oracle

“Fuck you!” I declared proudly and slightly belligerently, head held high.My tormentor cocked her blonde head and examined me thoughtfully. “OK.” She finally pronounced. “Where?”My mouth dropped open. This wasn’t how this was supposed to go. At all.The night before, I had called my cousin. Of course I did. We had come to America in 1979 when I was eight years old. My family had no English, $300 to our name, and hardly any clothes. But my aunt, uncle and ten-year old cousin had been here for two...
Business Insider •

I bought my husband a 3D printer for fun. It's changed how we fix things around the house and saved us $1,400 just this year.

I bought my husband a 3D printer for his 50th birthday. It was $700, but you don't turn half a century every day, so I splurged. I figured 3D printing would make a great hobby, and that's all it was at first.

He 3D-printed Dungeons & Dragons characters for himself and a few pug figurines, which resembled our dogs, for me when I was called back into the office.

Then the hinge that opens the trash can's lid broke.

Normally, an extra $40 for a new garbage can wouldn't have been a big deal, but t...
Inside Sacramento •

High Style - Inside Sacramento

“If you come to any of our events or see us in the streets, we’re always out with our kids doing family things,” she says. “We want people to come up and ask us about our cars. We love telling stories.” Adeline, a 1939 Buick, was a gift from Rodriguez’s husband. But she credits her father with introducing her to the lowrider community decades ago. “This culture and lifestyle never leaves your blood,” she says. The couple built the car about three years ago. Sometimes Rodriguez goes to her garage,...
GoNOMAD Travel •

Living The Gold Rush In Coloma, California

By Inna Tysoe
Coloma Gold Rush Live describes itself as a walk back in time. An immersion in the year 1850 might be more accurate. Every year on the second week of October, volunteer re-enactors and historians gather in a couple of Coloma meadows and live the way they did in 1850 for three days. We, modern-day people, are welcome to visit and watch them go about their lives.
The Mormons
The Mormon cabin is one of the first things you see as you step onto the sun-drenched meadow. Here, my husband...
GoNOMAD Travel •

Fascinating Castella Di Amorosa In Napa

By Inna Tysoe
The Sattui family, owners of V. Sattui Winery, did not go back to making wine when Prohibition was repealed.
Their vineyard lay mostly neglected until 1970 when Dario Sattui decided to make wine in a castle—the Castella di Amorosa in Calistoga, California.
Lore has it he came up with the idea while backpacking across Europe, but perhaps it was simply that if you’re going to make wine, a castle is an interesting place in which to do it. Whatever the reason, my husband and I drove to...

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