Essays, Reporting, and Fiction
Nonfiction
Book Reviews
- Paul Beatty's novel, The Sellout, and a search to define a "comic masterpiece" (EasyStreetMag.com, June 17, 2017)
- Honoring the year's worst writing (EasyStreetMag.com, June 29, 2016)
- Dinty W. Moore's Dear Mr. Essay Writer Guy (EasyStreetMag.com, Aug. 31, 2015)
- Patrick McEnroe's Hardcourt Confidential (TennisNow.com, June 8, 2010)
- Review of David Baggett's Roger Federer As a Philosophical Force and Other Tennis Tenets (TennisNow.com, Mar. 26, 2010)
- Sales lessons from three superstar tennis retailers (Tennis Industry Magazine, July 2017)
- Tennis fashion and clothing technology (Racquet Sports Industry Magazine, Aug. 2011)
When to fire a customer (Racquet Sports Industry Magazine, April 2009)
Education
- Teaching a Course as a Narrative Arc (Faculty Focus, August 31, 2022)
- Grading and Chaos Theory: Frustrations and Exhilarations of Parsing Motivating Factors, (Faculty Focus, May 26, 2021)
- Thoughts on the purpose of higher education (adjunctnation.com, Dec. 19, 2019)
- Reconsidering Mark Twain's Huck Finn as taught to high school students (Published online May 18, 2015, at Easy Street Magazine; revised from original work seen in Education Week/Teacher July 2013)
Food
- Maine sea salt producers (Yankee Magazine, Mar./Apr. 2009)
- Salt history and (briefly) its place in today's restaurants and recipes (US Airways Magazine, Dec. 2008)
- Pairing craft beer and premium cigars (Draft Magazine, Nov./Dec. 2007)
Miscellaneous
- Pickleball and Prison Reform (Racquet Sports Industry, Jan. 2023)
- On a Wink and a Prayer (Six Sentences, December 27, 2020)
- 2016 election's aftermath photo essay of one Manhattan evening (EasyStreetMag.com, Jan. 19, 2017)
- Bozo the Clown: An Icon as American as an Apple Pie in the Face (CUNY master's thesis. Feb. 2023)
- The changing role of librarians (EasyStreetMag.com, Sept. 24, 2017)
People behind Wisecrack Production's popular Thug Notes Channel (EasyStreetMag.com, May 15, 2017)
Horatio Alger, pederast and writer of no "rags to riches" tales (EasyStreetMag.com, June 10, 2015)
- Crossword puzzle and table tennis maven Will Shortz (Racquet Sports Industry Magazine, Sept./Oct. 2011)
- Tennis and rights legend Billie Jean King (Yankees Magazine, Aug. 2011)
- Western writing icon Zane Grey (Wild West Magazine, Dec. 1994)
- John Tunis, sportswriter and YA novelist (Los Angeles Times Book Review, June 30, 1991)
- Oliver Sacks at the time of the release of the movie Awakenings (USAir Magazine, March 1991)
Tennis
- Two community tennis organization (Racquet Sports Industry Magazine, Feb. 2021)
- USTA, USPTA and PTR agree on new certification procedures (Racquet Sports Industry Magazine, June 2020)
- USTA takes over managing national Cardio Tennis programs (Racquet Sports Industry Magazine, June 2020)
- Sportsmanship (2016 US Open Program)
- How pros think about serving (TennisNow.com, Aug. 2010)
- The Battistone brothers on the minor league tennis tour are using a two-handed racquet. (Tennisweek.com, March 2008)
Inventors behind a bicycle-powered tennis ball machine. (Racquet Sports Industry Magazine, July 2008)
Richard Williams (not the father of the tennis greats) and The Venus and Serena Williams Tennis/Tutorial Academy. (TennisWeek.com, March 2008)
- Rutgers ends men's tennis (TennisWeek.com, July 2006 — United States Tennis Writer's Assn. 2nd Place award in "Hard News" category, 2006)
- Racquet technology (Tennis Week, Apr. 2003)
Travel
- A NetJet(setter's) travel guide to year-round tennis (NetJets inflight magazine, Fall 2018)
- Sea Island Resort updates its facilities (Racquet Sports Industry Magazine, Feb. 2013)
Writers and Writing
- Candidate reading lists and potential inauguration poets (EasyStreetMag.com, Mar. 12, 2016, and Apr. 26, 2016)
- An unlikely place for inspiring thoughts on spelling, communication, and writing (EasyStreetMag.com, Nov. 10, 2015)
- How publication can change relationships (EasyStreetMag.com, Aug. 10, 2015)
Fiction and Microfiction
The Drabble
- Not Okay, Boomer (September 2, 2021)
- Dark and Light Battle (January 9, 2021)
- Not Quite What You Thought (November 19, 2020)
Ekphrastic Review
- J. Petrinovic to her Viewer (Feb. 23, 2017, and also on Easy Street Magazine, June 8, 2016)
Fifty Word Stories
- Lives Lived Lesson (Sept. 8, 2022)
- Losers Lament (June 15, 2021)
- Color Him Unimpressed (Dec. 11, 2019)
- Eternity Bytes (Nov. 12, 2019)
- Product of a Lucky Dump (Sept. 12, 2019)
Microfiction Monday Magazine
- Unvisible (October 5,2020)
Six Sentences
- Limits (April 19, 2022)
- In a Country Far Away (August 29, 2021)
- Probably Been There and Likely Done That (May 2, 2021)
- He Said He Wasn't a Most Peculiar Man (March 6, 2021)
- But I Did Shoot Deputy (February 9, 2021)
- The Voice, Which Is Absolutely Not Reality Television (June 14, 2020)
- Prayer and a Thought (May 11, 2020)
- I'm a Dyan Man (Feb 2, 2009)
- Sarah's Slight Sad Short Story (Sept. 1, 2009)
Tuesday Shorts
- She's Gnawing Solo (March 2009)