Interning at the regional literary magazine Snow’s Cut Monthly, in the beach town of Wilmington, North Carolina, “Creepy Cape Fear” lands as a four-page spread in the October 2009 issue
Knocking on the door of what’d been, until recently, an abandoned 1940s bread factory I join Sakowski Motors hot rod shop as an unpaid… intern, I guess? Nobody knows what to call it, but whatever I’m doing there, I love doing it
Long before Carolina Gold rice became a darling of the enthusiast home cook scene and restaurant industry, I write “When Rice Was King” for Snow’s Cut Monthly, delving into the then-little-known history of rice as a major cash crop during America’s colonial era.
As I finish out the last months of my studies at UNC Wilmington, I begin a paid gig writing for Cruisin’ Carolina, a regional monthly magazine run by the
Popular Mechanics becomes the first major magazine to begin assigning me regular work. Starting out with automotive coverage, I soon expand into covering tools and DIY topics. This begins a long and regular collaboration that continues to this day.
After four years studying journalism at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, North Carolina, and with the greatest of enduring graditude for the grizzled ex-newspaper honchos who schooled me in their journalism courses, I graduate with a degree in a field that I love but is undergoing great change and...
Local car enthusiasts had murmured for years about an AMC dealership in rural Northeastern North Carolina that refused to shut down when AMC went out of business in 1988… and kept itself open for 35 years longer, bit by bit selling their increasingly aging stock of “new” cars as the dealership crumbled around them.
Outreach by a Wired editor in February 2013 leads to my first contribution in a long collaboration that’ll culminate in a staff writer position from October 2019 to May 2024. Being print, this first article takes several months of production.
Few know it, but the 1848 California Gold Rush that populated the West wasn’t America’s first gold rush
For Popular Science’s ninth annual How It Works issue, I write the breakdown on the Formula E electric race car featured on the cover.