Writing

I've wanted to be a writer for as as long as I can remember. In the third grade, my extremely popular (at least with one member of my family) essay, "My Mother's Hands," was published in Hegeman Highlights, the house organ of Brooklyn's P.S. 92. Then I got sidetracked by a couple of other careers: academic manque and editor.

Since moving to Arizona in the early 1990s, however, I've made up for lost time. I've written three guidebooks and had numerous articles published, some in pretty hoo-hah places, if I say so myself. Here's a partial list:

Arizona Daily Star Arizona Highways Art & Antiques Bark Brides The Chicago Tribune Desert Living Diversion Hemispheres Imbibe The Guardian (London) Ladies Home Journal More National Geographic   Traveler New York Times Book   Review

Odyssey Rolls Royce Owners Club   Desk Diary/Luxury Travel   Magazine Steinway & Sons magazine Sunset Travel & Leisure Tucson Guide Quarterly Tucson Home Tucson Weekly The Wall Street Journal USAirways magazine USAToday.com Westways Wine Spirits Quarterly   (Pennsylvania)

A few kudos

I received a Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers for a piece I wrote -- on assignment -- about visiting a nudist resort. Clearly, taking your clothes off for money is not only legal in the writing business, but sanctioned.

And I recently nabbed a first place magazine writing award from the Arizona Press Club for a story on the Tucson Originals, a group of local eateries and associated businesses that helped start DineOriginals,  a national organization of independents who are pushing back against chain restaurants. Check them out whenever you travel to any of the member cities.

More about the books I've written...
More about some of my articles...