After building a writing portfolio in the worlds of entertainment and leisure—sports, music, travel—and covering medical and social issues as a newspaper reporter, my focus on the Americans With Disabilities Act led to my expanding my presence in trade publications through other business-related topics: disaster preparation, employee management, workplace violence, health care, and other issues facing businesses across a wide range of industries. Even my coverage of the amusement industry was grounded in business practices. It was in the business arena, not the entertainment fields, that I became a prolific profile writer.