samples of my freelance writing
Cache of the Day
Old-school scavenger hunts go high tech in the popular pastime called geocaching.
Lien and Mean
How I got priced out of the only housing market I had left.
Cross Purposes
Is the Metropolitan Police Department finally ready to hire
more school crossing guards?
The Old Shell Game
Comic artists Matt and Carol Dembicki have some serious fun
with the snapping-turtle monarch of a local pond.
Brave New Turkey
The rise and fall of the Beltsville Small White.
These Are the Voyages...
With their Internet fan series, Jack Marshall and crew bring Star Trek back to basics.
Snakehead Revisited
Maryland lets local snakehead owners off the hook.
Fish or Foul?
What you don't know about DC's notorious snakehead fish... and the people who love them.
Pinck Lady
DC Artist Noche Crist creates an installation "for being bad in."
Shock and Awe on Bryan Street
The U.S. Army invades a group house in Arlington, Virginia.
Worker B's fill the ranks 
What effect will the hike in H-1B visas for tech workers have on companies?
Cables connections
Internet service providers want to offer customers access through cable's broadband
Web Master
Tobey Macguire got the big bucks. But independent filmmaker Dan Poole
got to Spider-Man first.
Grip: The Strange World of Men
Mike Chang and his skin lead separate lives in Gilbert Hernandez's latest graphic novel.
User
Devin Grayson explores love and deception in cyberspace.
ZooGoer Magazine
Carving Up Kodiak
Land development threatens Kodiak Bear habitat.