A 30 year-old lawyer in Memphis, I remember telling my first grade teacher, Ms. Owen, that I wanted to be a writer someday. Two kids and a legal career have taken much of my writing time away, but I figure that it's never too late to begin fulfilling that first grade dream. As a 30th birthday resolution, I promised myself more time to write and to actually find a place to share what I've written. And so I discovered Helium and wrote my first article in lieu of a few lunch breaks. My other passion of late is my ever-expanding garden, where I've been trying to raise lots of unique plants from seed. The garden, like writing, provides a great escape from the day to day stresses of being a lawyer and a dad.

My passion is ...

growing seeds.

I know too much about ...

rare deadly diseases.

My parents always told me ...

not to be a follower.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a writer.

My favorite memory ...

spring days on the porch swing at my grandmother's house.

Why I write ...

to share the broadcasts in my brain.

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

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and Sigur Ros.

My first job ...

was grinding soil in coffee grinders for a agricultural lab.

My best moment ...

the moments my 2 kids were born.

My inspiration ...

people who live fearlessly.

Politics, News & Issues > Pulitzer Center Should a US company be legally liable in US courts for environmental consequences of its operations abroad?

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"Clean up your own mess," a command that most of us learned as children, was long ago forgotten by many U.S. corporations, at facilities both in the States and abroad. Only as a result of the sweeping federal U.S. environmental legislation beginning in the 1970s, on the heels of the Love Canal disaster and the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, were U.S. companies mandated to take responsibility for years of unregulated practices and the environmental contamination that resulted. As a result of the increased costs of doing business in a regulated environment, many U.S. companie...

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