My Advice to Reporters: 6 Things to Know Before You Call Me

It’s that time of year again for me. Turkey time. Talking turkey. Thanksgiving countdown. However you want to say it … it’s time for this turkey queen (an inherited nickname from my friend, Sherrie, who showed me the turkey queen ropes while she was at the National Turkey Federation) to handle the litany of media …

Stop with the Growth Hormones and Steroids Already (Or How I Bust a Myth)

If you want to see quiet little me get amped up, just start talking about all those horrible hormones and steroids that are fed to turkeys and chickens to make them grow so big and fat that they can’t stand up, much less walk around. That must be why turkeys have such big breasts right? …

Stop, Breathe and Give Thanks

Thanksgiving is so close now – just a day away, and I have hardly had time to think about blogging! That’s the curse of being the communications director for the nation’s largest turkey-producing state, I guess. I have tons of resources and recipes at my fingertips, but I’m too busy to stop, breathe and blog. …

Gobble On!

This self-described Turkey Queen is at again. It’s one week until Thanksgiving (cue the Angel choir voices singing now – aaahhhh!), so I couldn’t help but share a photo of this handsome little turkey I took in a Minnesota barn a while back. I mean, if you can’t share a turkey photo or two in …

Turkey Queen in November

Here’s my shocking admission today: Sometimes I have pork envy. (Bacon? Have you noticed recently that it’s everywhere?) Sometimes I have dairy envy. (Those cute cows plus the milk mustaches – who can compete?) Sometimes I even have just a little beef envy (in the form of a big, juicy New York strip). But there …