Freelance Writing: CK Jensen Communications

Cherryl Jensen is a versatile writer. She writes for magazines and newspapers on topics such as education, health, business, religion, personal growth and issues related to diversity and inclusiveness. She brings a knowledge and an appreciation of good literature as well as clarity, accuracy and grammatical correctness to her writing.
Cherryl's writing specialty is people profiles. She believes that everyone has a story, the seemingly ordinary person as well as the obviously extraordinary. One interviewee said: "Rarely do I read a story that tries to uncover the second layer of what makes a person tick. You were sensitive and accurate all within the same paragraphs."


	"Making a Difference," a weekly service, is a collaborative project of The Keene Sentinel and Giving Monadnock, which seeks to raise public awareness of the role of nonprofits in the Monadnock Region.
	ANTRIM GIRLS SHELTER Sarah (not her real name), 16, knows this is her last chance. She has been in and out of residential programs and in the court system since she was 11. This is her second time at the Antrim Girls Shelter... Read more.
	CEDARCREST Makayla Brooker looks up when her great-grandfather, Douglas E. Hill of Keene, enters the playroom at Cedarcrest. She knows that guy – he comes to visit her three or four times every day... Read more.
	CHESHIRE YMCA To say that Camp Takodah is a tradition for Katie Brunk is an understatement. The 38-year-old single mother started attending the Cheshire YMCA's camp on the shores of Cass Pond in Richmond when she was seven years old... Read more.
	KEENE FAMILY YMCA Get Ira Besdansky talking about the mission of the Keene Family YMCA – and stand back. He is a man with much passion about what the Y does for this community and, even more important, what more it could do... Read more.
	MARCEL'S WAY Paula Raymond knew right away that something was not right with her newborn son, Marcel. But it took nine months for their physician to realize he was not meeting the typical baby milestones and another two years... Read more.
	PETERBOROUGH PLAYERS It was Tuesday, June 28, the day before the opening of “Lettice and Lovage” at the Peterborough Players. Mary Beth Hurt, one of two leading ladies, asked to talk with artistic director Gus Kaikkonen... Read more.


	AIR PLAY Radio theatre lives and breathes at KSC To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of radio theatre's death have been greatly exaggerated. It is certainly not as widely popular as it was in the Golden Age of Radio Theatre, the 1930s and '40s, when people all across the United States gathered around their radios to listen to "Amos 'n' Andy," "The Lone Ranger," "The Jack Benny Show" or "Fibber McGee and Molly... Read more.
	ON THE ROAD AGAIN Staging Adventures with Rob and Lorrie Gray Rob Gray '99 is a soft-spoken, studious-looking man – until he gets on stage. Then the transformation takes place into Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol or Merlin in The Sword Called Excalibur or Dr. Ronk in A Doll's House... Read more.
	LOU TREMBLAY DIGS UP A DINOSAUR Big Dig in Montana may yield largest T.rex ever found On a July day in 1997 in the desert badlands of northeastern Montana, life took an exciting turn for Keene State College alum Louis Tremblay '64. The ninth-grade earth sciences teacher from Connecticut had made a discovery that would lead to newspaper headlines across the nation... Read more.
	CITIZEN OF THE WORLD: George Bruno '64, H'96 When Liza Beth Bruno, 14, ran for student council president at Hillside Middle School in Manchester, New Hampshire, it was no surprise that she won. After all, she had some of the best political advice one could get – and at no cost... Read more.
	MONADNOCK REGION: Contending with Growing Pains The natural beauty and quality of life of the Monadnock Region of southwest NH makes it not only a desirable relocation area for people and businesses, but also makes it a great retirement community as well... Read more.
	MAKING THE GRADE: Higher education struggles to meet the needs of the high-tech economy H.E. Bergeron Engineers in North Conway has been trying for six months to fill openings for five engineers. It can't find anyone for the jobs. "There are virtually no engineers available in the state, especially in northern New Hampshire," explains Edmund Bergeron, president of the company... Read more.
	PERSPECTIVES: Antioch University's James Craiglow and the University System of New Hampshire's Stephen Reno on Business and Higher Education What does business want from higher education? What does higher education want from business? CONNECTION asked presidents of two distinctly different higher education systems to ponder these questions... Read more.
	LADIES’ CHARITABLE SOCIETY On Saturday, July 1, 1815, 16 women met in the village of Keene to form a reading society. They agreed to pay dues of one cent a week and to use the money to help the needy in the community... Read more.
	NELSON TOWN BAND Frank Fiske came in handy in the early days of the Nelson Town Band. That's because he can play several different instruments. Depending on who else showed up for a gig and what instrument they played... Read more.


	BARBARA JONES Barbara Jones considers being in the presence of death "a wonderful privilege." As a longtime hospice volunteer and one of the original hospice nurses in the Monadnock area, the 83-year-old Keene resident has enjoyed this privilege perhaps hundreds of times... Read more.
	CLAIRE ROBSON In 1988, Claire Robson started writing a novel about her mother. In the way that writing will, the book took its own course and became as much, or more, about Robson herself. Fifteen years and 39 rejections later, it was published as the memoir "Love in Good Time." Read more.
	REVIEW OF 'LOVE IN GOOD TIME' Many readers might think a memoir about a woman born in a small village in England who, in her 20s, buys a motorbike and roars into a radical lesbian community in London and gets arrested for being a housing squatter isn't exactly their cup of tea. But "Love in Good Time," by Claire Robson, is so much more... Read more.
	JOHN HOFFMAN According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, John Hoffman Jr. is "actively engaged in farming." He sells timber and hay harvested from his 800-acre Seward Mountain Farm in Sullivan... Read more.
	ED TOMEY Revitalize – to bring new life or vigor. Ed Tomey uses that word a lot, whether he's talking about teaching at Antioch New England Graduate School or his work with the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation or how he loves... Read more.
	DR. MARY KELLY SUTTON After struggling with the high cost of dealing with health insurance companies and ending up $25,000 in debt, Dr. Mary Kelly Sutton is counting on a return to an older model... Read more.
	MARGOT TORREY Margaret "Margot" Torrey remembers hosting fancy dinner parties at Loomis-Chaffee, a private boarding school in Windsor, Conn., where her husband, Fred Torrey, was headmaster. She would be sitting... Read more.
	PETER PETTENGILL Tucked in the southwest corner of New Hampshire, near the Massachusetts and Vermont borders, is Wingate Farm. A typical New England home stands on the 50-acre farm... Read more.
	MAICH GARDNER As a doula – a woman who supports women in labor – Maich Gardner deals with birth on a regular basis. On any given night – "it's always the middle of the night... Read more.