COPYWRITING
I enjoy writing, it has always been a passion of mine. Along with writing marketing ads, I have written several Press Release articles, blog articles, and other published work. View some samples of those pieces below.
CHD MAGAZINE
LEARNING ABOUT OUR BABY'S AVSD DIAGNOSIS
...What happened when the doctor came in for the diagnosis lives in my mind only in pieces, much of it a blur.
Atrioventricular Heart Defect. Congenital Heart Defect. AVSD. CHD.
No matter how much you condensed the words, I still couldn’t process it. The world under my chair opened up, and I could feel gravity taking over my body as I felt like I was falling down into a hole. I wanted to rip my mask off, I couldn't breathe. Wait, it wasn't the mask, it was me; I was holding my breath. I grabbed David’s hand to try and stay grounded, but my mind slipped away anyways. I couldn’t hear what the doctor was saying anymore, it all sounded muffled and miles and miles away, like the teacher in Charlie Brown with her “wah wah wahs”. I could feel my face getting hot, the back of my neck start to sweat, and my peripheral vision start to turn black. No, krysti, keep it together, it's important to listen, don't faint now. A heart defect? But how? I cut out coffee, I threw away all of the skincare products and soaps with harmful chemicals, I took my prenatals every single day since day one (and even before that, since we had been trying to conceive for so long). I went down a list of reasons, none of them valid, and none of them the cause. And in between those thoughts, little snippets of the doctor’s voice. “1 in 1000 babies” “high risk of down syndrome” “growth in the 5th percentile” "at this stage, the hole won't close on its own" "cause for concern”.
“Is she viable?” The question left my mouth before I even had time to process. Did I even want to know the answer to that? Of course I did. I absolutely did not. I couldn’t decide...
nursery management magezine
The story behind Cherrylake’s first cultivar, the Miss Chloé Magnolia
In 1981, Michel and Veronique Sallin had a dream to invest in Florida agriculture. After moving to the US from France, they eventually purchased a 260 acre citrus grove among the rolling hills in Lake County. After devastating freezes in the 80’s, the Sallins moved the citrus operation down south and diversified into containerized ornamental tree farming creating the company we know today as Cherrylake. What attracted the Sallins to this area of agriculture was the new technologies that were being tested and implemented in the field of ornamental horticulture, such as root manipulation and containerized growing...
Thehomebodysguide.com
WEIGHTLESS
Having a child changes you.
Having a sick child breaks you.
It’s like watching a fire burn and being incapable of putting it out. I’ve never known what helpless felt like until now. I mourn the days where the most terrifying thing to me was figuring out how to get an unwanted outside critter out of the house, or driving at night against someone with high beams. Or locusts landing on me while I enjoy the outside air. How I wish for those fears to take the number one spot in my mind again. It can go right over “bypass”, “hypertension”, “open heart surgery”, “anesthesia”, “sutures”, “drainage tube”, and whatever other risks come with an Atrioventricular Septal Defect....
panthernow.com
School shootings compromise security and privacy
From tragedies such as the Columbine and Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, to almost-tragedies such as the student at University of Central Florida who planned to kill his peers, it is clear that the issue of school security is not only a hot topic but one that reasonably presents concern about safety in schools.
Establishing a sense of safety in schools, however, requires a compromise in terms of balancing security and privacy; it is only then that we can feel safer as a nation.
As reported by bullyingstatistics.org, teens ages 12 to 17 have seen violence increase in their schools, suggesting that violence is therefore most likely to occur on school property.
In order to resolve this problem of violence in schools, it is important to limit privacy by implementing school rules, contracts and other safety precautions like metal detectors...
