Born in Central City, Colorado, mountain

lion prints in the snow out the window,

Kansas (first pencil, first published

book -- “Poems” with Josh Warner, by

Truckstop Press), highschool in upstate

New York (learned the meaning of decrepit),

Grinnell College (intern, The Herald Register,

covered a triple murder and a record corn

harvest), Guatemala (wander, learning Spanish),

Stanford University, Tokyo (Stars and

Stripes newspaper), Texas (Third Coast

Magazine), decrepit again in Allentown

(writer and editor at Rodale Press), New

York City (coffee table books), South America

(all of it, by bus, train and foot, documented

in unpublished novel), New York (Colors

Magazine -- working with the great designer,

Tibor Kalman, Word.com, one of the first

online magazines, Men’s Journal, New York

Times Styles and Magazine, GQ, and another

unpublished novel), Ecuador (a year in a

cabin with no electricity, unpublished novel),

New York (Bomb Magazine, The New York

Times House and Home, Newsweek, Martha

Stewart Living, Smithsonian, many more),

unpublished novel, Brooklyn, 4 kids, charming wife, two

coonhounds (Epiphany magazine, the books:

How to be President, How to be a Hollywood

Star, The Fruitcake Lady, Alek: From

Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel,

Heroes Among Us, Winning Women, and

more books), RAPP advertising (freelance

storytelling and message therapy), long-form

work for Ty Montague, co-founder of Co: Collective,

digital advertising copywriting for Rokkan,

creator and writer of blogs for those who

can't blog, and always, the endless

memoir, iteration 3, Close Door Open.