The Story
How experience becomes editorial instinct
I write because I can't not. I freelance because stories don't tell themselves — and the freedom to work on my own terms, and yours, matters.
In three decades on this beat, I've wrangled the stories of entrepreneurs, visionaries, and an impressive parade of survivors — from a Purple Heart recipient to a CMA Award–winning singer-songwriter, and even George the cat, who accidentally hitched a ride a thousand miles away in a moving truck and wandered home a year later like it was just another Tuesday.
Not every story obeys the script. Once, when a photographer bailed on a cover shoot for a musician profile I was writing, I became the photographer — flat on my back in the middle of Main Street chasing the perfect sunbeam as it landed on his face, a vintage Mustang gleaming in the background.
Traffic stopped. The shot made the cover. Sometimes plan B is the plan.
The business world hasn't escaped me either — speeches, executive communications, white papers, technical articles, and brand writing that needed a little more humanity.
Not every assignment is glamorous, but every piece matters to someone. The real reward is in the doing — listening carefully, coaxing stories into the light, and leaving fingerprints on something that will live beyond the moment it was written.