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Marisa Donnelly

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Covers:  Lifestyle, health/wellness, love & relationships, self-love, empowerment, faith, education, music/culture, healthy living, identity, and purpose, among others.
Writer/editor, teacher, coach + creative strategist ✍ Multipassionate bonus mama 👩‍👦 Founder of @wordandsole ✨ ❤ → instagram.com/_marisadonnelly

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Marisa Donnelly is a prolific and engaging writer, editor, teacher, writing coach, and influencer based in the San Diego area. She has published thousands of articles accumulating over 21.2+ million page views and has bylines in Huffington Post, Bustle, BossBabe, Thought Catalog, and more. 

Marisa specializes in creating SEO-friendly, compelling and conversational copy, and has over ten years in the industry writing and editing for clients, businesses, and brands worldwide.

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Marisa Donnelly’s Journalist Portfolio

Word & Sole

Word & Sole

A girl with a passion for writing and inspired by both memory and place--where she is, where she's been, wher…

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Miss Donnelly's Daily Apple

Miss Donnelly's Daily Apple

A Bite of the Teaching Life: A collection of teaching experiences, tools, resources, projects, samples, sampl…

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Live Free, Live Healthy

Live Free, Live Healthy

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Quote Catalog

Quote Catalog

A collection of quotes by Marisa Donnelly.

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Marisa Donnelly

Marisa Donnelly

Marisa is a Midwest-born, West Coast-based writer, poet, and essayist who loves cheap Italian wine, sunshine,…

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Cyclospora keeps climbing, a bad West Nile season, truck spraying, and good news

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By Katelyn K. Jetelina, Marisa Donnelly Verified
| Your Local Epidemiologist
The YLE team is back from summer break, tanned (some of us), rested (debatable with small kids), and ready to jump right back in. I know a lot of you have questions about the Cyclospora outbreak. The YLE team is collecting them all, and tomorrow I’ll pick the top 10 for a deep dive. As of this morning, there is still very, very little communication from HHS, which is pretty insane. In the meantime, here’s what’s going on with health this week, including other bugs like ticks and mosquitoes.
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6 things to know about heat illness

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By Katelyn K. Jetelina, Marisa Donnelly Verified, Matt Willis
| Your Local Epidemiologist
When I picture a heat death, I used to imagine someone collapsing outside in the blazing sun while working at a construction site. That definitely happens, but what I learned while working at CDC is that it can also look like Shirley. Shirley was 70, recently widowed, and living alone in a home, with diabetes and high blood pressure. All winter, the boy next door would knock before a snowstorm to make sure she was okay.
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Heat illnesses, flu outbreak in the military, a new mRNA flu vaccine, and more

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By Katelyn K. Jetelina, Marisa Donnelly Verified, Julia Tellerman
| Your Local Epidemiologist
Somehow it’s already July. And with it comes the heat, along with the health consequences that follow. We’re also seeing a rise in the virus behind many sore throats, plus some possible early Covid-19 signals in the South. A military flu outbreak continues to increase after the removal of a vaccine requirement. A summer flu outbreak?
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