Announcing My New Job

Yes, it has been a while since my last posting here, as I have been very busy with several freelance assignments in both the East and the West (especially these past two weeks!)… However, next Monday, I will officially begin to curtail freelance work, in lieu of a new full-time job as Communications Director for Genesis HealthCare, a Pennsylvania-based corporation that operates skilled nursing and assisted living facilities and rehabilitation centers.

Genesis has offered me a great opportunity to work again in my hometown of Baltimore, but as part of a regional corporation. (Headquartered in Kennett Square, PA, Genesis has locations throughout the mid-Atlantic, and the communications office is located just north of Baltimore City, in Towson.) It’s also a return back to corporate communications and publications, as I will be creating internal news and information documents for and about the employees and operations of Genesis. It will be my first job outside of the non-profit world since 1992, when I left Baltimore Magazine, and my first non-fundraising job since I was recruited away from the Engineers Club in 1998.

As for the freelance creative services I have been focusing on during past year, I will not be accepting any new clients, but I do plan to concentrate my free time on a select number of personal and pro bono literary, visual and performing arts projects, as they arise.

Working and living in Baltimore – something I have not done both of in more than five years – will be a welcome change after commuting to Washington for Children's National Medical Center and relocating to Phoenix, Arizona to work for TGen. After the transition and the move back to the East Coast is finally complete within a few months, I'll once again be free for early evening events with friends B'more again.

For those of you in Baltimore, give me a call or send me an e-mail so we can begin planning some fun! For those of you in DC, we have to plan some special weekend activities. And for those of you out West, I'll be popping in and out of Phoenix a few times between now and the Fall, and I do plan to maintain an Arizona telephone number and mailing address indefinitely, so there will be several opportunities to connect with you too.