Vital Signs

I am a freelance writer and musician based in Lima, Ohio.

I attended Ohio’s Bowling Green State University where I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Popular Culture. Following a brief and ill-considered stint in graduate school, I moved to New York City, where I embarked on a career as a rock critic, musician and magazine journalist. Over time, my range of interests expanded to include business and management, travel, contemporary lifestyles and emerging digital technologies.

In 1984, I moved to Los Angeles, where I served as an editor and feature writer for Western Airlines’ inflight magazine and, later, California Business magazine. I left California Business, and Los Angeles, in 1989, to focus on my writing and subsequently became a regular contributor to a variety of business, technology and general interest publications. These include: the inflight magazines for Continental Airlines, Alaska Airlines, and Midwest Airlines; Workforce magazine; Car & Travel magazine; InPittsburgh Newsweekly; American Film; New Choices; the Los Angeles Reader, and The Journal of Popular Music and Society.

From 1995 through 1998, I served as the editorial columnist for The Bisbee Observer, and in 1996, my column “Observations” was named best column in its class by the Arizona Newspapers Association. From 1998 through 2004, I wrote the monthly “Mind of the Manager” column for Continental magazine, and my column “Tech Notes” ran monthly in Reno Air’s Approach magazine from 1997 through 1999. My “Ideas@Work” column was a regular feature in Continental magazine from 2005 through 2008.

In addition to my work for the airline magazines and the Association of National Advertisers’ B-to-B Marketer, I researched and wrote copy for UCLA Invents, the annual report for UCLA’s Office of Intellectual Property and I have contributed to the Michelin Must Sees publications, updating Michelin's travel guides to Ohio, the Grand Canyon and Arizona.