Welcome to my Website
I chose a career as a full-time freelance writer because I kept encountering stories that demanded to be told, stories of place, of events, of people. Ever since I’ve been telling and publishing stories.
The profile has become one of my favorite forms of writing: author Geoffrey Wolff, author Dean Koontz , Jack Peltason, president of the University of California, and artist Alexandra Nechita. At times a particular issue compels me: feature articles on the health hazards of electro-magnetic fields, domestic violence, charity telemarketing, and the Orange County (California) Republican Party. Two recently published pieces:, “Laguna’s Scribe of Summer,” a profile on acclaimed baseball author Arnold Hano, appears in the late summer 2008 issue of “Laguna Beach” magazine www.lagunabeachmag.com; and “The Baseball Reliquary: The Left Coast’s Alternative to Interpreting Baseball History” appears in the 2007-2008 edition of “The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture.” (McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina.)
Whenever I discover a place of interest, I like to share the news: A self-guided boat trip up England’s Thames River, a reprise on the 100th anniversary of one of my favorite books, Jerome K. Jerome’s “Three Men in a Boat,” the Wine Country of Santa Barbara County, published a decade before the appearance of the film “Sideways”; and the rekindling of a family tradition with my son and his wife on a camping trip to Mineral King, California. Food goes along with travel, and I’ve written about my encounter with the green chiles of New Mexico, dining out along San Francisco’s cable car routes, and the foolishness of trying to stick to a diet in France (lost weight anyway.) For more on the subject, please click on Travel: Leaving Home.
And speaking of travel, each March we head to Arizona for a collegial gathering of baseball scholars, historians, and authors. To learn more, please click on the Nine Spring Training Conference.
The essay is another form of writing I particular enjoy -- this after years of resistance to writing in first-person singular. Published essays discuss the value of canyons, a cross-country drive with my 16-year-old son, and my father, baseball, and me. For more on the subject of baseball, please click on About Baseball -- and to learn more about the book I wrote about women and baseball? Please click on Breaking into Baseball.
Phone: 949.294.3185
Coming Up:
Writing the Truth of Our Lives: A Memoir Workshop. A six-week course beginning Thursday, April 15, 2010, at the Newport Beach Public Library, Newport Beach, California
Further information on
registration forthcoming
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Nine Spring Training Conference
on Baseball History and Culture
March 10-13, 2010
Fiesta Resort Conference Center
Tempe, Arizona
Co-Chair
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June 2-4, 2010: Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Cooperstown, New York
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SABR 41: Co-editor of The Baseball Research Journal in conjunction with the Society for American Baseball Research National Convention, Summer 2011
