Tina Mortimer

Check out my resume.

Interview with New York Times best-selling author, William Kent Krueger.

Wrote and edited more than 50 Texas Children’s Hospital webpages, ensuring the content was clear, compelling, SEO-optimized and adhered to the brand’s voice and standards.

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.

Essay about my experience with recurrent miscarriage.

Last spring, just a few months shy of his 9th birthday, my otherwise healthy, active child began complaining of stomachaches.

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.

These specially trained dogs aren't just pets. They're everyday heroes for Twin Cities kids with special needs.

I wrote this creative nonfiction essay for Emerson College's Redivider literary journal.

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.”

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.

Satirical piece I wrote about growing old and going to church again.

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 ...

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