Iowa native. #GoHawkeyes
Navy wife.
Journalist — former TV anchor & reporter with NBC, CBS, Fox & Bloomberg. Columbia Journalism School alum.
I’ve always loved adventure. From an early age that meant dragging my parents on the Chicago Loop roller coaster at the local carnival 7 times in a row (I wasn’t tall enough to go by myself), producing and anchoring my own TV show (Good Morning, Mason City) from my childhood basement and skiing down the tallest, steepest hills I (thought) I could handle.
Thanks to my adventurous spirit, I’ll try (nearly) anything once. I’ve ‘taken on’ skydiving, roller derby and wild rickshaw rides in the streets of Agra, India. I’ve tried my hand at goat roping (yes, goat roping), a circus trapeze and archery with Ted Nugent.
But adventure doesn’t have to mean spending big bucks traveling to Asia or jumping out of airplanes. Each and every day brings opportunity to ‘take on’ something new. You can ‘take on’ that new Ethiopian or Persian restaurant in your city, an amazing hike you’ve been meaning to find time for, or a nearby city you’ve never explored.
My goal is to ‘take on’ something new at every opportunity. I hope you’ll join me!