Pat Dunnigan is a Chicago-area freelance journalist, copywriter and blogger whose work has been published in The Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago, NPR’s All Things Considered, Florida Trend and Nickelodeon.com, among other places. A former law and business magazine journalist who turned to humor writing to embarrass her children and indulge a passion for run-on sentences, she also works as a writing and ice skating instructor, though generally not at the same time.