Author – Journalist — Bon Vivant
The Electronic Frontier Foundation offered journalists tips on keeping their sources safe, but all of them seemed flawed or too technical for the average person to use easily. What’s an investigative journalist to do?
Read MoreA World On Fire: Life and Death In A New Orleans Squat is a finalist for the PenUSA literary non-fiction award, but alas did not win.
Read MoreToday’s the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge, which reminded me how I nearly died twice covering the celebration of the 50th birthday.
Read MoreA box of items rescued from the NOLA warehouse fire arrives in my house carrying a mystery in the soot and crumbled pages.
Read MoreWBUR “Here and Now” featured my Boston Review story, and the comments posted under it show how much the traveling kids’ lifestyle of hopping trains and scrounging a livelihood intrigues, infuriates and touches people’s imaginations.
Read MoreMy appearance on Montreal drive-time radio surprised me as the interviewer wanted to speak about my daughter and me, not about those who died in the fire.
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