A History of Communications Work Culminating for Your Benefit
Childhood (1968-1986)
I was born in Lovell, Wyoming, but spent most of my childhood on the Ft. Peck Reservation in Northeast Montana. As a child of teachers, books and words played a central role in my early life. By age 4, I’d been read to so often that I started to insist on reading without assistance. My sister, Camille, was one of my earliest teachers.
During my elementary and high-school years, English, speech and other word-oriented classes were among my favorites. I also loved music, basketball and track.
In junior high, I won the Roosevelt County Spelling Bee with the word chocolate (you'd be surprised how many kids miss the second o!) One of my first jobs was as a typist for The Poplar Shopper, where I fell in love with the smell of printer’s ink all over again. 
College years (1986-1990)
In 1986, I graduated and headed eastward, attending college at Minnesota State University Moorhead. My major course of study was mass communications with an emphasis on broadcast journalism and a minor in music.
Toward the end of my college years, I undertook a European study tour, which landed me in Oxford, England, for five weeks, and various other places upon the European Continent (France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark) for the final three.
I also completed an internship at KXJB-TV in Fargo, ND, as a television reporter intern my junior year. While it was great experience and I felt at home in the TV studio, I wondered if print might be a more viable option for me.
I graduated summa cum laude and completed the honors program. Six months later, I married my college sweetheart, and shortly thereafter, drove with him to Northwestern Washington to embark on a new adventure.
Early Adulthood (1991–1996)
While in Washington, I worked at two newspapers, including a Seattle suburban tri-weekly as a real-estate editor and special-sections writer, and then, for the majority of our time there, as a lifestyles editor and county commission reporter for the state’s second-largest weekly.
When our first child was born, we felt called to move back to the Midwest. After a stint working for my husband’s hometown paper, The Pope County Tribune, he accepted a job offer back in our stomping grounds of Fargo-Moorhead, and my freelance work began.
The ‘Parenting Little Ones’ Years (1997-2009)
During this time of intense mothering, I stayed active as a writer through involvement in several professional organizations, and began contributing articles to magazines, both national and local, as well as various other publications. I also broke into the world of children’s books as an author, and spent quite a bit of time sharing what I’d learned about writing with students and teachers in schools and elsewhere.
Today (2010-2011)
Now, I’m gathering up all that I've learned over the past two decades and blending it into one business. Beauclair Communications is the happy result of all that I’ve absorbed thus far as a communicator. It’s the culmination of years chasing both stories and children, all of it coming together in a way that allows me to offer you the fruits of my hard work, and even, on occasion, a touch of wisdom.
I look forward to the continued adventure, now made more concrete to help serve you better, and what I might do to put my life experiences and skills to work for your benefit. To learn more about what Beauclair Communications offers, please visit the Services page.