Who?
Who is Washwords?
If you’re on this page because I begged, cajoled, manic-messaged you, then you already know who I am – be nice!
But if you’ve stumbled upon me, I’ve chosen to remain quasi-anonymous for a few reasons. I can share more detail with anyone who cares but in sum, I think I wanted to be read objectively and write the same way, NOT for a particular group, but for whoever it appeals to (and I hope that will be you, whether you know me or not).
By way of introduction, I am a lifelong writer/editor living in Washington, D.C. I work for the government, editing reports and helping social scientists translate their research into “plain English” but have freelanced, been a staff writer for publications including: Newsweek, The Washington Post, Syracuse Herald Journal, Syracuse New Times, Montgomery Gazette (Maryland), Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin, and a lot of other places, most of you’ve never heard of, where I learned a lot and met some AMAZING people. I’m also 35-ish, female, been married and divorced (stayed friends as much as that’s possible), am (finally) dating a really great guy (and have some great dating battle stories to prove it), own a place in the city but have lived in surburbia. I don’t have children but consider myself truly blessed to have a niece I love to pieces and a lot of great kid friends. Likewise I don’t have pets, but have two very special dog friends.
Thank you for reading, writing, stay tuned. I’ll update this as I figure out more and more about what I’d like it to be. You can help – write me!
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Posted in | 10 Comments »
March 31st, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Anonymo-girl! Love it. More, please.
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:57 pm
This sounds like a very interesting and fun ride. Count me in!
April 7th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
I’m so glad you begged, cajoled and manic-messaged me into reading your blog. I like it! I like it a lot!
April 14th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
You are really good at this begging and cajoling thing as you twisted my arm to go to see an 80s legend =)
April 18th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Hi, isn’t that visitor map cool? I’ve discovered a few things about it. That large red dot around Virginia is all the AOL visitors. All of AOL’s traffic goes through one POP in VA.
Also, that dot off the coast of Africa? At first I was thinking “Wow, that’s so cool ! Some guy on a boat is checking out my blog…. Turns out it’s a military base on an island off of Africa.”
May 6th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Editor’s note from Washwords: One of the copyright violaters who’s stealing my stuff without attribution follow. (I left it here so all it would know.
[...] Who: will tell you (duh) who this washwords person is. Well, kinda. Again, some of you know exactly who I am (mom!) but some of you don’t, so shhh. I’m going incognito. The page tells you more about why. [...]
Editor/author again Dear “Car sites”: I don’t mind the auto-reply-publizing your own site but attribution please. Otherwise, it’s, you know plagarism and that’s bad. Thanks. Here’s how it’s SUPPOSED to work (thanks poplife): poplife
Cheers! washy!
May 7th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Good on ya mate !! Keep it up….
roc / Brisbane / The Land of Oz
May 30th, 2008 at 3:20 am
Huh, I know a few people who worked/perhaps still work at the Washington Post.
September 16th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
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April 12th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Nice to meet you from the EC network and also BlogHer! I’m j-school bound in the fall; let’s cross our fingers the market will pick up by the time I graduate!
WW says: Welcome 52 Faces; so glad you found me and took time to say hello! Isn’t it funny to “run into” people on multiple web places…the world has changed more than I can even express since I was in college (I took the liberal arts route: poli.sci/english, rather than j-school) – where did 15 years GO – but I remember the feeling well. College is an amazing time and you have so much opportunity to self publish and get your feet wet WRITING – do it, every which way you can. And read, too. And make amazing friends and talk about writing and reading and learning in all kinds of ways. Hey, publications might be verrry willing to take on an intern in the next few years: silver lining? Hope to see you again.