: About Me

I'll keep this basic. I was born in Texas, but grew up in Wisconsin. I joined the Marine Corps right out of high school in 1992 and spent over eight years in the Corps. I have two sons, RJ and David. After getting out Valentine's Day, 2001, I worked as a sports reporter in New Bern, NC. I have worked in Martinsville, Va, Jacksonville, NC, Washington, NC, and Greenville, NC at newspapers. I have covered every high school sport there is, college football, baseball, soccer and basketball at my alma mater of East Carolina University. Three years after getting out of the Marines, I went to college and graduated from East Carolina four years later Summa Cum Laude with a degree in Broadcast Journalism.
I have worked in radio for three years, newspapers for over seven and briefly in television. I currently live in St. Louis and work at a newspaper.
The book I am working on is about a couple I met while working in Illinois.

My passion is ...

sports

I know too much about ...

movies and football

My parents always told me ...

be a good man

My childhood ambition ...

to be a sports caster

My favorite memory ...

the birth of my first son

Why I write ...

I love to write and think I'm good at what I do.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

usually some form of ESPN

My first job ...

I was a paper boy as a kid. My first real job was as a short-order cook in high school.

My best moment ...

probably the first interception I had in a high school football game, or the first by-line I had in a newspaper.

My inspiration ...

to work in print, radio and television simultaneously, and eventually retire from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Politics, News & Issues > US Elections US elections 2008: McCain, Obama and "reflexive racism"

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The election of Barack Obama as our 44th president makes me a little sad. Not that the well-spoken Obama isn't a deserving candidate and not because it's an historic election. What gets me down is that the 2008 election will now be remembered more for race than it will the candidates and what they stood for. Obama ran a campaign focused on change. Soon people will forget what those changes are supposed to be. Instead they will focus on his historic achievement as the nation's first black president. I also dread hearing the term "African-American" about a hundred times a day for the next th...

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