This site is moving!
After nearly nine years of running www.Ravenwald.com, I'm moving to a new domain name: www.Jennifer-Willis.com!

The www.Ravenwald.com URL will remain active for a period of time -- to allow for updated bookmarks, RSS feeds and other links -- and then will exist as a redirect.

Please visit my new site at www.Jennifer-Willis.com!

Jennifer Willis Howdy! I'm Jennifer.

I've been writing professionally for more than fifteen years.

As a magazine and newspaper writer, I've written for print and online publications such as The Portland Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, FrontDoor.com, The Writer, The Oregonian, Ancestry, Spirituality & Health and Vegetarian Times. I specialize in sustainability, spirituality, health and dogs.

As a corporate and technical writer, I've worked in IT, public health, financial management, software development and general business. I've produced just about everything you can think of, including business plans, investor proposals, user guides, policy and procedures manuals, legal guidebooks, marketing letters, website content and newsletters.

I've also written books, scripts and host of other material.

In short, if you need it, I can write it.

Recent Articles
Voodoo Sisterhood [HTML]
Skirt! Magazine. National.
Day camp teaches bike skills alongside eco-friendly field trips [PDF] [HTML]
The Oregonian. Portland, Oregon.
Shades of the Shoah [PDF] [HTML]
Aish Hatorah. Jerusalem, Israel / International.
Goodbye Green Guilt, Hello Change [PDF] [HTML]
Christian Science Monitor. National.
St. Lucia Day greets cyclists with treats [PDF] [HTML]
The Oregonian. Portland, Oregon.
Displaced by March Madness [PDF] [HTML]
Christian Science Monitor. National.
Class Mixes Snow Caves, Sisterhood [PDF] [HTML]
Portland Tribune. Portland, Oregon.
Noses Know the Score [PDF] [HTML]
Portland Tribune. Portland, Oregon.
"Jennifer is a dream to work with. I've worked with her on myriad assignments and I've always been delighted with her writing. She's creative at coming up with her own ideas as well as excellent at taking direction and suggestions. Her work is crisp, clean and delivered on time and in the correct format and she responds quickly and professionally to any questions. I highly recommend her for any sort of writing project."

Audrey Van Buskirk
Former Editor, The Portland Tribune
Former Editor, The Portland Physician Scribe
Social Networking/Web 2.0
@jenwillis
Blogs
The Green Soul Guide
Judgment [24 August 2009]
There are times that I don't know how to start a project and so I end up wasting a lot of time considering each possible approach from every angle — not actually trying any of these, but just examining them. I've spent too much of my life being afraid of "doing it wrong" or making a mistake or unintentionally offending someone, and I've often missed out on real living. This includes my efforts to bring myself into greater harmony and better symbiosis with the planet I'm living on.
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thoughts from the spiral
life in a box [25 August 2009]
While we all seem to be dealing with varying levels of disappointment and stress these days, I spent some time last night thinking about the restrictions I've been feeling, and how my life today compares to other times in my life.

And I realized that I've been living in a box.
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a reader muses
The Geography of Bliss
Hot on the heels of recent academic studies of the world's happiest places, former NPR correspondent Eric Weiner set out on a global road trip to find out for himself what makes a place — and a people — happy or unhappy.

"The Geography of Bliss" is the thought-provoking and laugh-out-loud funny result of his personal happiness adventure.
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