Articles
As a newspaper reporter and columnist, radio commentator, blogger, and full-time and freelance writer and editor, I have been writing about people and places in western Illinois for my entire career.
Some Sample Essays/Columns/Radio Commentaries
- “Looking for Lincoln? (or trying to nap in the back seat?)” More here: Radio essays, Newspaper column
Publications & Freelance Writing
- “Six Degrees from Galesburg” weekly column for the Galesburg Register-Mail, 2004-2006)
- Public radio commentaries (for NPR member station Tri States Public Radio, 2006-present)
- “Country Boy” (an interview with Lon Helton, host of Country Countdown, (for Monmouth Magazine)
- “Leading Lady” (an interview with As the World Turns’ Helen Wagner Willey, the oldest working actress on television, for Monmouth Magazine)
- Two cover stories and a few shorter features for Western Illinois Family Magazine
