During my East Coast odyssey of ’08, I spent a few weeks researching America’s castles, many of which are located in the Northeast, particularly Newport, Rhode Island, and New York’s Hudson River Valley and Long Island. The article is finally live on ForbesTraveler.com: http://www.forbestraveler.com/luxury/americas-castles-story.html?partner=rss While in Newport to dig a little deeper into the history [...]
You know you’re a perfect candidate for a job when not two, but five people send you a link to it within 24 hours. That’s what happened this week when several of my friends forwarded me a link to the Best Job in the World, Caretaker of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef. I’ve [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged — on my own website, at least. I’ve been so busy ghostwriting, web consulting, writing Wikipedia entries, and teaching high school (yes, you read that correctly) that I’ve let my poor beloved blog sit idle for far too long. However, should I once again begin to slack and [...]
Behold, the new website! I got tired of looking at my old website design, so I’ve updated the look to be more a little more travel themed and classic. Take a look around. You’ll notice that I’ve also added more services, including web consulting, which seems to be the fastest-growing part of my nascent freelance [...]
It’s live! My travel piece on Southwest wedding destinations in Exquisite Weddings has hit the stands. This was my first piece for the publication, and it’s quite an impressive glossy.
You may have noticed a purdy new badge on my site, the one announcing that I’m now a Featured Correspondent for AdventureUs.com. What does this mean? For one, it means I should get my tuchis in gear and start blogging more, as I’m already backlogged with travel tales — from driving with the fluffy children [...]
Establishing a lucrative career as a writer is hard enough. Take a crack at travel writing and you might as well call that refrigerator box on the corner your “condo.” This is the main reason I’ve never gone freelance full time. (The runner-up reason is that the querying process is as unforgiving and demoralizing as [...]
When irony died a premature death, thanks to the events of 9/11, I wasn’t terribly upset. I actually hoped its passing would spell the end of cooler-than-thou t-shirt slogans that every hipster from Silverlake to Williamsburg wore as a de rigeur part of their wardrobe. Eh-eh. Instead, irony seems to have gone into a coma, [...]
Just got back from my trip to the Big Island (sans Big Sis — photos and journal to come) to find a welcome surprise waiting in my mail box. Seems that my article on diving with great whites received an Honorable Mention for feature article in the 2007 Writer’s Digest contest. Results haven’t been posted [...]
I only had Mel Shavelson for one grad school class, one so crammed with other students that I’m sure he never realized whether or not I was there. But I liked the guy. He had a passion about his work. His love of teaching was evident, and even he must have known that he could [...]
