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Lori earned a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism where the motto was "succeed or die trying." It was a close call several times, but she made it. She worked as a photojournalist in North Dakota and as a reporter, news editor and photojournalist in Oregon. She also worked as a contract photographer for Getty images. When Lori and her husband started their family, she traded in her camera bag for a diaper bag and ventured into the mysterious world of mothering where women work with pre-verbal creatures that have a habit of exploding at semi-regular intervals. (So, really, it wasn't all that different from covering the explosion of Mt. St. Helen's.) When her youngest child started school all day, Lori turned to the computer keyboard and began writing. Lori approached The Indianapolis Star with an idea for a family humor column. They struck a handshake deal and a couple of years later McClatchy-Tribune News Service picked up the column and began distributing it to 325 newspapers in the states and 25 in Canada. In addition, her writing has been read aloud on The Dr. Laura Show, Live with Regis! and the Paul Harvey News and Comment. She is also a regular contributor to www.JewishWorldReview.com and www.crosswalk.com. Lori's newspaper column led to the publication of several books including, I Was a Better Mother Before I Had Kids (Pocket Books), Pass the Faith Please: Nourishing your child's soul during the everyday moments of life (Waterbrook), and All Stressed Up and No Place To Go (Emmis). Go to the books link for more info. She is a frequent speaker at Town Hall lecture series, libraries, church and women's groups and groups that help women in crisis pregnancies. She counts two of her greatest privileges to include addressing a Spouses of Congress event at the Capitol and delivering the commencement address to college graduates at the Indiana Women's Prison. Lori has picked up a few journalism awards along the way, but the honor she values more than any others is having a reader say, "I clipped your column and hung it on the 'fridge." For a columnist, it doesn't get much better than that.
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