Full disclosure: I worked in local and network TV news for more than a decade. I’m told that makes me a ‘veteran’ journalist. I’ve been lucky to have worked mostly on the frontier of the industry; I was the only ‘cyberjournalist’...
I wasn’t sure I wanted to reveal this, but, what the heck. After going back-and-forth on my own head, I decided to post this. I think, now more than ever, we should be sharing our stories of enduring humanity. Here’s my attempt… Put simply, this...
Poverty… To write about it is to see it. To experience it. To try to save people from it. Hopefully. Once upon a time, I was a TV reporter in my hometown. I was known – and to be known – by anyone and everyone who knew my stories about...
Magazine, Newspaper & Web Dinner with Sopranos is offer that’s hard to refuse (Contra Costa Times, Sept. 14, 2001) [theater review] Jennifer as Peace Corps volunteer in Turkmenistan [written in Turkmen cyrillic, 1998-1999 *Translation to come] In Action (Page 5,...
My last two years of high school, I was involved in the Forensics program (otherwise known as speech and debate). I remember being scared shitless; I mean I already had issues being around men (my father’s death at age 34 strained many areas of my young life),...
