“A Golden Weekend,” featured in the story, “When Life Felt Normal: Your Pre-Pandemic Memories,” New York Times, April 24, 2020

 

“Eclipse Hunters Detect the Language of the Universe,” Laguna Beach Independent, September 1, 2017

 

“Meet the Lads Who Wrote the Books on Irish Slang,” Culture Trip, October 12, 2016

 

“Welcome to Brand Iceland,” Atlantic Notes, June 4, 2016

 

“The Road Less Traveled: Why Marketing Needs Poetry & Poets,” Medium, A Different Perspective, April 1, 2015

 

 “Pura Vida Magic,” Transitions Abroad, March 2015, (finalist, 2015 Annual Narrative Travel Writing Award)

 

“Literary Tourism: Bloomsday Across the U.S.,” The Airship, June 16, 2014

 

“Insight: Once a Backpacker’s Pit Stop, Puerto Natales, Chile, is Now Ecolodge Heaven,” The Culture-ist, February 18, 2014

 

“A Family History of Yosemite,” published in, 150 Stories: An Anthology, Yosemite Conservancy, December 2013

 

“Love Letters: Eugene, Oregon,” Huffington Post, September 1, 2013

 

“Why Not in Laguna Beach? “Laguna Beach Magazine, June 12, 2013, guest column proposing a literary festival for Laguna Beach

 

“Irish Lit,” Westways, May 2012

 

“Big Sur and the Legacy of Henry Miller,” Westways, November/December 2011

 

Environmental columnist and book reviewer, Laguna Beach Independent, 2010-2014

 

“Irma’s Cliff Note Crusade is Worth Joining,” L.A. Times, Opinion, December 15, 2005

 

“Sweet Heat,” Christian Science Monitor, September 5, 1985