Lori earned a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism where the motto was "succeed or die trying." It was a close call several times, but she made it. She completed two programs of study, photojournalism and news-editorial writing. She worked as a photojournalist at several papers, and also as a contract photographer for Getty Images.

When Lori and her husband started their family, she traded in her camera bag for a diaper bag and ventured into the world of mothering where women work with pre-verbal creatures that explode at semi-regular intervals. (So, really, it wasn't all that different from covering the explosion of Mt. St. Helen's)

When “the baby” started first grade, Lori turned to the computer keyboard and began writing. That “baby” just started teaching first grade and Lori is still writing.

Lori’s column is distributed by McClatchy Tribune News Service to newspapers throughout the United States and Canada. Her writing has been read aloud on The Dr. Laura Show, Live with Regis! and the Paul Harvey News and Comment. She is also a regular contributor to www.JewishWorldReview.com, www.crosswalk.com and the Saturday Evening Post.

Lori is the author of  “I Was a Better Mother Before I Had Kids,” “Pass the Faith, Please,” ”All Stressed Up and No Place To Go” and her latest book, a short work of fiction titled, “Catching Christmas.” More information on the books can be found at the books link. 

A frequent speaker at Town Hall lecture series, libraries, church groups, civic groups and women's groups, Lori counts two of her greatest privileges to include addressing a Spouses of Congress event at the Capitol and delivering the commencement address to college graduates at the Indiana Women's Prison.

Lori has picked up a few journalism awards along the way, but the honor she values more than any others is having a reader say, "I clipped your column and hung it on the 'fridge." For a columnist, it doesn't get much better than that.

e-mail: lori@loriborgman.com

- Member ICDirect.com's Top Sites -
Indiana, Indiana