I grew up on the water. My father served in the Navy and then the Coast Guard, so my childhood was measured in coastlines, small Minnesota lakes, the Great Lakes, the Atlantic, the Pacific. I learned to read water before I learned to read a map, and that's still how I move through a new place.

A Master's in Theatre Directing from Case Western gave me the formal language for what I'd always done instinctively: find the true moment inside the performed one. The real subject in my frame is never just the glacier or the harbor, it's the specific moment a person, often another creative working out in the wild, meets that landscape and becomes the story. Give me an actor mid-monologue on a gold rush stage, a painter with her back to a glacier, a fiddler on a dock at golden hour, and I'll find the frame that makes them the main character.

Shiny Penny Travels is a destination content studio built for the cruise and adventure travel industry, not a blog, not an influencer account. I'm already going to the ports, the tender docks, the shows lit like theater, and I bring back the specific, unexpected detail that actually makes someone decide to go.

The credential stack: owner of Shiny Penny Studios in Cleveland, twenty years marketing experience in the entertainment industry, NCL Masters agent, multiple back-to-back Alaska sailings covering every major Southeast Alaska port in different light and different seasons, Alaska and Caribbean Specialist with multiple visits every season.

If you need destination content with main character energy, I'm already going there, let's talk.