A B O U T    U S

The owner of CRS was first paid for writing when she was a teenager; her byline appeared in the Bangkok World and the Sacramento Bee. Since that time she has published numerous essays, investigative pieces, short stories, poetry, humor, snarky letters, arts reviews, and features in periodicals including The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, The Oregonian, Portland Tribune, New Woman, OMNI, California Today, Cosmopolitan, Portland magazine, USAir, Rain City Review, and Black Lamb. She has worked as a sports reporter and paralegal. For more than seven years she was a columnist with Willamette Week; her feature, "Whiplash," was the paper's most popular entry and was syndicated nationally. She has also edited books, articles, and documents both for large organizations and individuals. She taught fiction classes for Oregon Writers Workshop and the Mountain Writers Center in Portland. She reads publicly at Broadway Books, Powell's Books, Proper Eats, Bold Sky Cafe, Barnes and Noble, The Rose Schnitzer Home, and smaller venues. In 2006 she recorded the audiobook The Fabric of Autism, Weaving the Threads into a Cogent Theory. She has owned and operated three resume offices in California and two in Portland. In addition to mentoring private writing students, she offers life coaching to individuals in various kinds of transition. She presented a career/resume workshop at New Seasons in May 2008 and another for NELA in June. Test her on song lyrics and melodies; there's a lot of stuff in the cranium. She is an inveterate researcher, advocate, dancer, singer, cheerleader and catalyst. She has never used Photoshop.