Writing

I wrote several pieces for this special feature on organ donation, which ran in a special section of the Wall Street Journal in 2010. My favorite was the story on 9 year old Erin Brenner, an inspirational little girl who was lucky enough to receive a kidney transplant. Talk about a megawatt smile!

It's pretty easy to ridicule Guy Fieri, with his outsized personality and over-the-top bleached locks, but the guy's done a lot of good for the promotion of local, independent restaurants and bars with "Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives." Here I interview Guy about summer BBQ tips for a special MediaPlanet section in USA Today. For the record, Fieri is way more intelligent than his doofy TV persona lets on.

I wrote several articles in this special section of USA Today on Careers in Healthcare. In retrospect, perhaps Lance Armstrong was not the best choice for the cover.

This is an article I wrote for the Kansas City Pitch on the (then) soon-to-be-massive Band of Horses, touring on the release of their powerful first album "Everything All the Time."  This article was syndicated across the Village Voice Media chain of papers.

This is an article I wrote for the Riverfront Times in St. Louis on the breakup and reconfiguration of seminal indie rock act My Morning Jacket. This interview came just before Jim James' crew hit it big with their breakthrough album "Z." This article was syndicated across the Village Voice Media chain of papers.

This is a fun press release I wrote for Kalamazoo Gourmet, a high-end grill maker, challenging Americans to grill their entire Thanksgiving meal. I'm not sure how they were supposed to pull off the cranberry sauce...