I am currently working for our family business, Shipwreck Rum, a labor of love you can find at www.shipwreckrum.com. I'm also writing fiction and "Clues to Life," a series of letters to my spectacular grandchildren. For decades, I wrote articles and managed projects for Rutgers University's New Jersey Medical School, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Lehigh University. I also work closely with Mike Lanctot at EMS Responsive on website copy..
A graduate of Penn State University, I earned my BA in journalism, wrote for The Daily Collegian and graduated cum laude in three years. I was the senior writer/editor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now Rutgers) for 12 years where I produced Pulse, a 40-page magazine for New Jersey Medical School. I also wrote for UMDNJ Magazine, and was the project director for the annual report. My projects, including slideshows, have won national awards. I have been on staff at Ladies Home Journal, Woman’s Day, Family Health, Woman Magazine (editor-in-chief), McCall’s Magazine, and was also the Director of the Infants and Children’s Laboratory at the Good Housekeeping Institute. I am the author of eight books, including Jackie Cochran, The Autobiography of the Greatest Woman Pilot in Aviation History, and my publishers have included Doubleday, St. Martin’s Press, McGraw-Hill and Bantam Books.
167 Cooper Avenue
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043-1810
mabrinley@verizon.net
973-202-5909 (mobile)
973-746-1608
Writing Samples
List of Services
-
Our St. Kitts Rum Adventure Write a description for this list item and include information that will interest site visitors. For example, you may want to describe a team member's experience, what makes a product special, or a unique service that you offer.
-
Trauma: The Research Behind Excellence (PDF) Write a description for this list item and include information that will interest site visitors. For example, you may want to describe a team member's experience, what makes a product special, or a unique service that you offer.
List Item 3 -
How the Top Liver Transplant Team Saves Lives, Pulse Magazine, Fall 2022
-
Saving Grace, Cancer Connection Magazine
-
Clues to Life: Letters to My Grandchildren, Happiness
Blogs
Alexander Stone Carr was born on Dec. 16, 2016 and I met this newest – my fifth! – grandchild moments after his birth in the middle of a long night. He stared intently, wide-awake and alert, into his mother’s eyes and actually grabbed for a necklace Maggie was wearing. Both wore falling-in-love-at-first-sight facial expressions that were absolutely priceless. And since then, Alex has only grown even more expansive in the way he can speak volumes with his little face using every muscle available, even his eyebrows going up and down in what looks like real wisdom. I mean, honestly, how did he know how to smile and make eye contact at the perfect moments? He’s also talking baby gibberish, chatting seriously about what’s on his mind…though we don’t understand a word he is saying as yet. His pure joy at being here is apparent to all, even complete strangers who engage with him.
Maggie had a baby boy, Alexander Stone Carr. Here they are on day 1...learning to love and totally attached to one another.
My daughter Maggie is going to have a little boy on or about December 22 of this year. She is absolutely thrilled and absolutely caught up in nesting instinct imperatives. Please don’t knock them. “Maternal nest-building is regulated by the hormonal actions of estradiol, progesterone and prolactin,” according to Wikipedia which references a study in the Journal of Neuroendocrinology .
