About
The WORD. And a snapshot.
Happily you've reached my page. Welcome! I’m a teacher in New York City who also writes and takes photos on the side. One is never fully severed from the other. Each morning my students arrive with their curiosity. Full of ideas and raw ambition, both light and darkness from the world around can seep into the classroom at any time. The b
Happily you've reached my page. Welcome! I’m a teacher in New York City who also writes and takes photos on the side. One is never fully severed from the other. Each morning my students arrive with their curiosity. Full of ideas and raw ambition, both light and darkness from the world around can seep into the classroom at any time. The best days are when the children comment and hmm as we discuss, making their own connections. This is true also for me as an artist. The flash between here and there - word and art - is where the drama unfolds.
Journalist
For years I was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and then a freelancer for the Register-Guard newspaper in Eugene, Oregon and Able News, At the University of Oregon I was a staff writer/editor for the Moving Up! Math textbook (English and Spanish editions).
June 2026 "Eugene Pioneers: Voices from the Oregon Frontier" will be published by
For years I was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and then a freelancer for the Register-Guard newspaper in Eugene, Oregon and Able News, At the University of Oregon I was a staff writer/editor for the Moving Up! Math textbook (English and Spanish editions).
June 2026 "Eugene Pioneers: Voices from the Oregon Frontier" will be published by Arcadia/The History Press. Biographies of Civil War-era settlers at rest in an historic pioneer cemetery include stories of migration, fortune-hunting, fur trading, bronco busting and quirky Victorian Americana.
I'm proud to point to a feature on Bookshare that I wrote for the 2019 Winter Bulletin published by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
Deliciously, Chocolat Celeste is an artisan confectioner I helped brand in the 2000s. Raspberry Habanero? Zesty!
More to come!
Theater - Creative
Theater - Creative
Disney Musicals in Schools sponsored costumes and props for "Pizza Palace," my original school play. It was scheduled to premiere in Manhattan in 2020. Never happened. But you can buy the script and other plays on TpT "Drama-delic Or just ask/buy for one here.
Poetry is another passion. In 2023 “Hints at 3a.m.” was published in Brooklyn's
Disney Musicals in Schools sponsored costumes and props for "Pizza Palace," my original school play. It was scheduled to premiere in Manhattan in 2020. Never happened. But you can buy the script and other plays on TpT "Drama-delic Or just ask/buy for one here.
Poetry is another passion. In 2023 “Hints at 3a.m.” was published in Brooklyn's BarBar Literary Magazine. .Also Succession and City Dwellers . "Wanting to Connect with a Stranger” was featured in the 2021 Detour-Ahead exhibition. "In a Pandemic" was in the fall 2020 issue of Open Minds Quarterly. The Tiny Seed Journal. selected "A Gust of Wind" for their November 2019 issue. Proudly my modern limerick about Pluto was published April 2018 in THAT Literary Review, an annual journal at Auburn University.
Often I read at Poets House in lower Manhattan, and am part of the Parkside Writers critique group on the UWS.
photographer
Theater - Creative
My photos "Zoom Gloom" and "Black Lives are Beloved" were in the online Detour-Ahead Exhibition in 2020-21. While the world snaps photos of themselves, I've been photographing daily life raw and unguarded. People are the most interesting when they are themselves. See more.