Freelance

My freelance work is wide-ranging, as are my interests. The key has been to keep my eyes open for good stories, listen well and respectfully, and have good working relationships with editors.

Yosemite National Park

• New York Times Travel
• A cross country adventure in Yosemite National Park
• Once the dude ranch capital of the world, Wickenburg, Arizona, is now known for detox clinics
• "This American Life"
• The Allure of Crime -- a friendly conversation with a former bank robber.
• California Magazine
• "Do you have free will?" -- An interview with philosopher John Searle.
• Mother Jones
• "The Talking Way" -- In Navajo country, traditional justice, modern violence, and the death penalty collide in a debate unlike any in America
• Hermenaut
• "Pioneertown" - In this zine's "Fake Authenticity" issue #15, I write about a former Western movie set in the Mojave desert now inhabited by out-of-work extras.


Taking Things Seriously

• Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects With Unexpected Significance (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007). For this unique book, I contributed one of the essays.
• Mirabella
• "Om of the Brave" [1] [2] - Before I began to report a story on how prisons in the United States were using a ten-day meditation course to help reform inmates, I decided to take the course myself. That became a tale in itself.
• "Wisdom of the Ages" [1] [2] [3] [4] - I was turning 40, had just broken up with my boyfriend, and didn�t have a job that paid any money. So I decided to head for the desert and live in a trailer with senior citizens for a while. It was a blast.
• I.D.
• "Bran Identity", Interview with former Disney Imagineer Bran Ferren, October 2000
• Blueprint
  Interview with pioneer in kinesthetic learning Judith Kranzler; Jill Stamm, an expert on infant cognition and learning; architect James Hubbell; high schooler and tech wizard Phillip Dhingra