About – Oh My! Omaha

Glad you found Oh My! Omaha – I think you’ll like it here.

Launched in 2013, Oh My! Omaha is a parent’s guide to local and family travel adventures. You’ll find out what’s going on around the metro – with or without kids – plus, feed your wanderlust with ideas for day trips, road trips and longer. If you’re not from around here, you’ll see it’s a great place to visit.

I started this blog because I knew our city was full of great places and events, but I didn’t know if they were suitable for my young kids. Now I go check those things out and report back to you. And, just between you and me, I also dreamt of being a travel writer, so I do a little bit of that on the blog too.

Just a little about me

I’ve been involved in writing in some form or another for more than two decades. With a goal of breaking into travel writing, I started my career at The Daily Nonpareil (in Council Bluffs, Iowa) as a reporter and, eventually, Arts & Entertainment Editor. I never did get to write a travel story for them, but it led to many adventures, from learning to fly a plane, interviewing Willie Nelson, and judging an Elvis Tribute Artist competition.

While my first love is travel writing, I’ve had a long-running career supporting Omaha institutions by finding unique ways to tell their stories through marketing, public relations and social media. For nearly a decade, I worked full-time and wrote on the side. Now, I’m a full-time writer.

In addition to Oh My! Omaha the blog, I send out a couple unique newsletters each week. Love food? You’ll want to subscribe to the Omaha Dining Digest. Want to know where to take the kids this week? Sign up for the Omaha Planner. I’m also the author of “Lost Restaurants of Omaha” and had a short stint as a podcaster.

I can’t live without theater and concerts; outdoor outings like hiking or scouring the farmers market; books; travel; and food (maybe a little too much). As luck would have it, I married a guy who loves most of that, too. I call him Mr. Wonderful, sometimes without sarcasm. We’re raising two funny kids who are good sports about my need to document every step of their lives with photos and videos. I call my oldest Farley, because he has a history of Chris Farley-esque falls, and my youngest Mooch, because she will swipe the good stuff off your dinner plate if you’re not looking.

Hey, look! I can write for you:

Lately, I’m getting back to my journalist roots by freelance writing. You may have read my work in Omaha Magazine and its offshoots, like B2B, Omaha Home and Old Market Encounter.

Stories include:

Meet the Megaphone (B2B Omaha December 2022/January 2023)

The Devil is in the Detail (Omaha Home 2018)

Evolution of the Omaha Farmers Market (Omaha Magazine 2018)