Health, Home Living, Legal
Blog Posts, Webpages, Articles, Books and eBooks
Outdoor Recreation (including hiking and scuba diving), Nature, Books/Reading, Self-Help, Spirituality, Pets, Travel, Self-Publishing
Upon Barbara's return from working as a fashion model in Europe for over three years, she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in International Affairs. Courses in the program included International Trade, International Finance, Political Geography, Economic Geography, Comparative Governments, International Organizations, and Natural Resources and Environment.
Upon graduation, she moved to Washington, DC to work with an international consulting group to the US Agency for International Development. Barbara maintains a strong interest in global cultures as well as international travel.
Barbara’s interest in the law led her to earn a paralegal certificate after moving to North Carolina and working as a contractor with an intellectual property asset protection firm. This firm specialized in trademark infringement, diversion, and product counterfeiting worldwide. Barbara pursued classes at night while transitioning to a full-time position with a large law firm’s intellectual property group. The courses under the paralegal program gave her a broad overview of areas of law, including legal research and writing, civil litigation, civil injuries, torts, ethics, real estate, family law, and criminal law and procedure. Barbara received the Spring 2000 Outstanding Student in Paralegal Technology award.
Barbara has written for several clients in the health field, including orthopedists, dermatologists, dentists, and chiropractors. She has also written several blog posts on specific health conditions such as Celiac Disease and Hypothyroidism.
Barbara enjoys researching and writing about new techniques, new products, and new experiences in both physical and mental health. These range anywhere from exercise, physical therapy, and preventive practices to alternative healthcare and wellbeing. One of her favorite, recent writing projects delved into the new experience of Memory Cafes.
Barbara has had several opportunities to write about home living. This has included topics on indoor air quality, maintaining and cleaning solar panels, adding steam showers to your home, and preventing flooding in laundry rooms. She enjoys writing about ways to enjoy our homes and solutions for improving them. She also takes it a step further, writing about such activities as square foot gardening just outside the backdoor.
Barbara has worked in the legal field for over ten years, serving as a paralegal, legal administrator, and contract and compliance specialist. She has experience in intellectual property, contracts, compliance, risk, public records, statutory/regulatory research, and legislative tracking.
Barbara’s legal writing experience comes from both her legal career and her freelance content writing career. She has written privacy policies, terms and conditions, contracts, sub-leases, SOWs, and disclosure agreements, to name a few.
Her most recent content writing has included such topics as the legality of CBD and hemp, the different types of patents, the use of law firm trade names, and successor trustee selection.
Barbara also enjoys writing about the latest legal news as well as legal history.
Barbara has been writing blog posts, personally and professionally, for over eight years. This began with a Florida-related blog covering travel, history, people, places, and unique characteristics of the state of Florida. She now writes on various subjects for client blogs, concentrating on inbound marketing principles of providing value, usually in the form of education, along with a recommendation or call to action. Barbara also writes more promotional blog posts when required by a client.
Examples of the type of client blogs Barbara writes for include health, fitness, relaxation, travel, and outdoor activities. Others include household living, pets, and careers. Still others focus on legal topics, written in understandable ways for those outside the legal profession.
After completing a Writer’s Digest course on Nonfiction Article Writing, Barbara knew she was on the right track. Her love for providing information, coupled with conducting interviews, has led to a new path for her creativity. Examples of the type of articles she has written so far include whitewater rafting for beginners and scuba diving for shark’s teeth.
Barbara began writing webpages in 2019, including landing pages, about us pages, and other information pages. One example has been a page for an audiologist office, with information on the differences between ENT doctors, audiologists, and hearing aid specialists.
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