I was born and raised in High Point; attended UNC-Chapel Hill (BSBA ’82); spent 20 years in Washington, DC and Northern Virginia working in the public and private sectors; moved my family back to this area in 2003 and freelanced as an advertising and content copywriter for several local and national brands. In 2006, I joined Home Accents Today Magazine (sister publication to Ganett-owned Furniture Today) as the Retail Editor, profiling home furnishings retailers, interior designers, product designers and covering the semiannual High Point, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Dallas and New York markets. In 2016 I was promoted to Editor-in-Chief, responsible for managing staff, deadlines, budget and layout of 32 print issues a year, plus digital content, video interviews and podcasts. I continued to work in the industry as a contractor and assisted with the startup of Home News Now, a digital trade publication. My hobbies are gardening, rockhounding, photography, quilting (I've made seven, by hand), adding to my vinyl LP collection, and fly fishing (my husband Tim taught me about 12 years ago). We became Jamestown residents in 2018, after our dream house popped up on Zillow. We drove straight to the address from our home in Greensboro, fell in love at first sight, and called a realtor while sitting in our car in front of the house. She agreed to meet us there early the next day. Tim and I arrived first, wandered into the backyard, and were speechless when we found ourselves standing in a beautiful woodland paradise of towering trees, lush green moss, and a sparkling stream flowing beneath giant rhododendron branches. When our realtor arrived, we told her we would do whatever it took to become the new owners of that gorgeous piece of property. Her response: “Do you want to see the inside of the house?”
I like living here, love my Jamestown friends and community, but over the past several years I've grown increasingly disillusioned with how the town is being run. I'm fiscally disciplined with an eye for detail and expect the same of my local government. The roles have somehow gotten reversed here - the managerial staff appears to be managing the town council instead of the town. It's time to regroup, set some boundaries, focus on our streams and drinking water, get the spending under control, ensure basic services are being provided, clean up the hazardous sites, provide more oversight, and make sure we're all on the same page.
