Tina Mortimer is a freelance writer and editor with 15+ years experience helping healthcare, government and nonprofit organizations with their print and digital content needs. Call, text or email Tina for help with your next project.
Texas Children's Hospital
Worked with the client to write and edit more than 50 Texas Children’s Hospital webpages, ensuring the content was clear, compelling, SEO-optimized and adhered to brand voice and standards.
No ordinary life
Interview with New York Times best-selling author, William Kent Krueger.
Don’t plead. Count to 3!
My 5-year-old daughter, Gwen, is like an adorably playful, but naughty puppy, who wants desperately to play nice, but can’t stop nipping.
The most trusted name in the composites industry
Worked closely with IP Corporation stakeholders to write and edit web content for company rebrand, merging content from four websites to one unified site. Wrote and edited new content for IP Corporation’s career site to create a compelling career overview page and team bios to attract quality candidates to the company.
Coping with anxiety
Last spring, just a few months shy of his 9th birthday, my otherwise healthy, active child began complaining of stomachaches.
Brown-bag bullying
My son isn’t a picky eater. At home, he’ll eat anything — sushi, salmon, whole wheat spaghetti. He likes spinach. And quinoa. Even Brussels sprouts. About the only thing he won’t eat is his mom’s turkey meatloaf. But to be fair, his father won’t either. It’s not very good.
Dogs to the Rescue!
These specially trained dogs aren't just pets. They're everyday heroes for Twin Cities kids with special needs.
What You Deserve
I wrote this creative nonfiction essay for Emerson College's Redivider literary journal.
A good-enough marriage
In a few weeks, it will be 12 years since my husband and I stood in front of a Bahamian minister — in what was generously described by our travel agent as a “garden,” next to the swim-up bar at an all-inclusive resort — and said our “I do’s.”
I Feel Bad About My Hair
As a child, I loved being in the water. Every day of every summer of my childhood in Connecticut was spent either at the beach or in someone’s pool. That changed my freshman year of high school.
Litany of a Middle-Aged Mom
Satirical piece I wrote about growing old and going to church again.
A toxic mix for kids
Ever since it was discovered that salt could prevent meat from spoiling, humans have worked to create new methods of preserving, packaging and even transforming food.
As a result, the foods we consume today contain a dizzying array of additives ...
What’s ‘moderate’ drinking anyway?
Every week there seems to be a new study in the headlines linking alcohol to health problems. Even moderate drinking is said to put women at an increased risk of liver disease, depression and several types of cancer. But what is “moderate” drinking?
It depends on who you ask.