To put my prodigious skills to work for you as a writer, researcher, or editor.
Browse my large library of article clips and judge my writing and research talents for yourself. Specialties include Environment, Politics & History, Spirituality/Religion, and Opinion (from the under-represented "religious left").
I'm a scrupulous editor & proofreader, with a keen instinct for reader interest and a sharp eye for spelling, grammatical, and style errors. (Familiar with both AP and Chicago Manual of Style standards.)
Co-author of best-selling The Goodly Spellbook: Olde Spells for Modern Problems, Sterling Publishing, Sept. 2005.
Have published numerous cover stories and other articles in Mountain Xpress, Western North Carolina's largest newsweekly, and edited its extensive Community Calendar for 6 years.
Have produced and maintained popular, respected Wiccan website, oldenwilde.org, since 1995. Have published numerous commentaries on 1st Amendment issues. Co-recipient (with my wife, Dixie Deerman) of Marketta Laurila Free Speech Award, 1998.
1999-2005: Staff reporter and Community Calendar editor at Mountain Xpress (www.mountainx.com), Asheville, NC
1996-1998: Sales and marketing position at Lord George, a hearth products and woodstove retailer, Asheville, NC
1987-1995: Data specialist at Walter B. Hewlett's Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, Menlo Park, CA
National Writers Union
Prefer to work from my home in Asheville, NC. Willing to travel. Highly computer-literate -- I grew up in Cupertino, CA, just around the corner from Apple Computer -- and possess a full range of up-to-date Mac and cross-platform word-processing, editing, graphics, and production software.