About

Hi, I’m Linda. Welcome.

I was born and raised in New­nan, Geor­gia. I lived there until I was 20 years old, then I moved to upstate New York and I still live there today. I’m very proud of my rich south­ern her­itage, but equally as proud of the life I’ve built in New York. Most peo­ple would say I’m an all around friendly gal who loves to make you laugh. There are a few that might even say I have a tal­ent or two. Some peo­ple, or maybe more than I might care to admit, might say I’m a pain in their back­side. My son Josh and my daugh­ter Steph prob­a­bly have mixed feel­ings about it.

I love to write and find it very reward­ing. Lately it feels like I’m wear­ing a few hats 24 hours a day; writer, edi­tor, blog­ger, and lov­ing them all. My whole life I have strongly believed in the power of words. Pay­ing atten­tion to details, whether it’s fact or fic­tion, find­ing the best way to put words together, and plac­ing them in the per­fect for­mat pro­duces inter­est­ing and mind catch­ing mate­r­ial. If I do this then I know there is qual­ity and putting my pen to paper was time well spent.

Recently I was told, over and over, by some­one whose opin­ion I respected, “No one reads what’s on a web page.” I can still hear the per­son laugh­ing, “I could put the word (strong offen­sive word) in the mid­dle of a page and no one would ever see it! No one reads what’s on a page! No one cares!” I always had a dif­fi­cult time wrap­ping my mind around this, but what did I know? That per­son was the guru so  it must be true.

Now, I strongly dis­agree and know I should have trusted my gut; I never truly believed it didn’t mat­ter. I know it mat­ters how words are writ­ten and what infor­ma­tion is on a web page. I know it mat­ters if web con­tent is writ­ten poorly or if it’s writ­ten well. I know it mat­ters if it’s inter­est­ing and I know it mat­ters if it makes sense. You can’t just put an explica­tive in the mid­dle of a web page out of con­text and expect no one will notice. I know it mat­ters; I always have.

Know­ing peo­ple react to words is why I pay atten­tion to the details oth­ers may find tedious and annoy­ing. I expect more from me and my work than oth­ers do. The qual­ity can’t be good, it needs to be great before I can be remotely sat­is­fied. I’m nit picky and a per­fec­tion­ist to obses­sion. Some peo­ple might see these as me hav­ing a prob­lem and I should seek ther­apy for it. I see them as skills. I have high expec­ta­tions and you enjoy the ben­e­fits. I take web con­tent cre­ation serious.

In ret­ro­spect, the per­son I highly admired and respected…well, I was taught an impor­tant les­son. Never lower your stan­dards and never doubt your gut.

When I tell you, “Trust me.” know you can. It mat­ters to me.