Mary McDonald

Mission Control

Moving people and projects toward a beautiful launch.

My Story

Before I saw the light and joined nGen Works, I spent a couple of decades in the wide world of advertising. Did every job there is in an agency except for those that had anything to do with math. The hats I wore that fit me best were copywriter and associate creative director, writing for the web, print and broadcast for some of the biggest brands in the land.

When not mulling over the fate of complete sentences in a character-counting world, I’m donating blood to my kilnformed glass habit. Or eating. Or thinking about eating.

Believe It Or Not

Planned to be a French teacher. Became damned-near fluent 30-something years ago but can now only remember “où est la bibliothéque?” (It’s still a good question.)

Odd Job

Killing carnations with a pocketknife in a freezing greenhouse in Denver.

On the Nightstand

Water, books on the iPad, half-knitted something-or-other

On the Bookshelf

The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds and a bazillion cookbooks

Guilty Pleasure

Sausage biscuits

Perverse iTunes Purchase

Hanson’s “MMMBop”

Greatest Fear

Theme parks