About

Let’s cut to the chase, okay?

Since this is a multi-functional website – I am a writer for hire as well as a Person Who Blogs – I have included two About Me descriptions. Choose your poison.

Here is the serious one. It’s so Linked In.

Writer whose work has appeared in Crain’s Detroit Business, Michigan Prime, Metro Parent, X-ology, Detroit Jewish News, Neighborhood SEEN, Michigan College Guide, Christian Science Monitor, Patch, Metro You, Cornerstone Schools newsletters and numerous other publications
Interview and research skills honed through feature and advertorial writing
Types of published pieces include features, essays, columns, website content, advertorials, newsletters, people profiles and business profiles
Client relationship, project management and analytical skills developed through over 15 years of corporate experience
Bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University

And here is the fun one.

I joined a swim team when I was eleven, and promptly quit. But not before I took second place in backstroke. Quite impressed with myself, to this day! I don’t care that it was with the B-team.

Bought a pair of saddle-shoes when they came back in style for a day or two in the ’70s; baby-sat my way through the teen-aged years to earn money for clothes, and later, college. Although by then I’d made the successful transition to a career in table bussing. Eventually, I graduated college, got a job, got married, had kids, balanced a long-time career as a cubicle dweller with child-rearing, laundry and an addiction to ABC’s Lost.

After my cubicle-dwelling years came to a close, I turned to writing. Not that I hadn’t written before. I had…on the side. But now, I write full-time.

For those who care about credentials, I graduated from Michigan State University way before Starbucks became anyone’s home away from home. And for those really in love with credentials, here is a list of publications in which I have appeared: Michigan Prime, Crain’s Detroit Business, Michigan College Guide, Detroit Jewish News, The Christian Science Monitor, MetroParent, X-ology, Neighborhood SEEN, My MetroYou, Western New York Family, the former Strut Magazine, Birmingham Patch, Examiner, Windsor Parent, Observer-Eccentric Newspapers, Detroit Free Press editorial section (for which I received a coffee mug) and the Detroit News Homestyle section (for which I received a hard copy book on the art of French cooking).

And finally…

If you’re feeling ambitious, I was featured on a fellow writer’s blog. Kind of explains it all. Click on the link below.

http://lindaksienkiewicz.com/what-why-how-pam-houghton/