Sailors know that you can't change the wind, but you can adjust your sails—a lesson that translates to navigating through the shifting winds of life....
You'll find here samples of my work as a journalist: news and features articles and columns. Though I also have written numerous business proposals and narratives, I have not posted them here due to proprietary and confidentiality constraints.
My poems and short stories also are not posted here.
In the late twenty-teens, I was a contributor to Great Lakes Scuttlebutt Magazine and Lakeland Boating and served as a reporter for Detroit Public Television's Great Lakes Now news site. I also contributed to Grosse Pointe News, covering news in Grosse Pointe Farms, Grosse Pointe Shores, and Grosse Pointe Woods. Back in 2001, in addition to contributing to local magazines and The Detroit News as a freelance writer, I was a staff writer with Grosse Pointe News, covering schools and libraries. I have posted some of my early articles in Dropbox folders (links below).
I'm the recipient of the 2018 second-place award by the Michigan Press Association in the weekly media B news feature category. Link to the award-winning article.
See more of my work on my writing website and my business website.
Find additional samples in these Dropbox folders: Columns, Features, News.
Sailors know that you can't change the wind, but you can adjust your sails—a lesson that translates to navigating through the shifting winds of life....
From the late 1970s into the 2010s, sailors delighted in an extraordinary boat yard near the foot of St. Jean on the Detroit River, where all worked hard at ...
Years ago, there was a magical place of lovely chaos called Detroit Boat Works, where a group of merry sailors kept an antique 296-ton steel tugboat, a goat ...
I grew up in “Boat Town USA”—Harrison Township, Michigan. In my teens, my classmates manned the fuel docks my dad used to gas up our boat. For many of the ki...
Prominent in Michigan’s port of Ludington harbor sits the SS Badger — the last of Lake Michigan’s car ferries and the last coal-fired passenger steamsh...
The final act of Detroit's 2019 Erotic Poetry and Music Festival Feb. 23 escorted patrons back in time to another era of musical sizzle. It was the debut pe...
I wrote a series of articles about the deterioration of the seawall along Lake Shore Drive in Grosse Pointe Farms and Grosse Pointe Shores. The deterioration...
GROSSE POINTE WOODS -- In 2010, Lisa Bardy experienced life-transforming loss. "My ridiculously sad story is my mom died. My dog dies. So I quit my job and ...
Political veteran Candice S. Miller was raised on the shores of Lake St. Clair and sold sailboats before entering politics. Since then, Miller has ...
During my years raising four boys, when I discovered the vase broken, the big-screen TV cracked or the Nerf-gun ammo jammed in the printer, I wanted the trut...
An empty lot was at the corner of Mack and Calvin avenues until 1950, when Jay and Dave Charvat's grandfather, Louis, father, Bud, and uncle, Bob, built a fl...
I ran into Duke the police dog at the Dirty Dog last week and congratulated him on his latest arrest. Graciously, Duke let me get a picture with him. His ha...
With newspaper subscriptions on the rise, I’m hopeful the most irritating phrase of 2017 — “fake news” — will fade from public discourse in 2018. The phrase...
I covered the Gerald Day criminal trial from when Day was bound over to Wayne County Circuit Court on November 13, 2017, until his sentencing on August 24, 2...
Andrews on the Corner more than survived the wrecking ball that crashed into Rivertown more than a decade ago — it has thrived. How? A combination of...
Traveling port to port in my family’s powerboat filled my childhood summers. And still today, in my 50s, I prefer being on water than on land in summer. So I...
