In the mid aughts I gained employment in Marengo, Iowa (pop. 3,500) as county editor of the Marengo Pioneer-Republican. My boss gave me a weekly column, which he titled, “In the Nick of Time.” People read it. My apologies.

After a brief stop in Philly and a wholly entertaining stint as special sections coordinator for The Press of Atlantic City, I moved to Tokyo. Eventually I was appointed editorial director of Tokyo Weekender magazine. My freelance work appeared in Kinfolk, Wall Street Journal-Asia, Time Out Tokyo, Tokyo Art Beat, etc.

In 2021, in the midst of a global pandemic, I relocated to Singapore as a trailing spouse. During this time I volunteered as author liaison for the Singapore Writers Festival. There I was inspired to fulfill my dream to be a fiction writer. 

In 2024 I launched the independent publishing company Hayseed Press and published my first book, The F-Man Himself. Hopefully there are more to come.

My career peaked in 2002. As the environmental beat reporter for the University of Iowa student newspaper The Daily Iowan, I was assigned to interview Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut told me, quote, “We are here on Earth to fart around.”

I follow that advice wholeheartedly and this blog is evidence of that.