Born in Colorado, raised on the Kansas plains, where one morning I leaned back under a cottonwood and felt wind, the sky and the leaves, all connected. That pure sensation guided everything that followed: My first newspaper job, at the Grinnell Herald Register (no pay; forever grateful), followed by the Santa Fe Reporter, Austin's Third Coast magazine, Stanford for grad school and a path to Tokyo, where I celebrated late every night and woke early to write for Pacific Stars and Stripes, the voice of the US Military in the Pacific. Rodale Press made me a book writer. New York City gave me stories and columns in the New York Times, GQ, Newsweek, and so many others. Ran a successful business designing and importing textiles from Central America that taught me a lot about the perils and potentials of supply chains and traveling to remote villages with pockets full of cash. Moved to an isolated cabin with no electricity in the Andean cloud forest and wrote a novel that no one wanted to publish (one of six, so far). In that forest I decided to only do work that benefited the planet, or people. A simple decision with positive results. Began ghostwriting books for people with important stories to tell, such as a Sudanese refugee, and a nonagenarian philosopher with a funny take on the world. Had the great good fortune to partner with energy executive Jim Rogers to write a book about energy poverty in India and Sub-Saharan Africa. My inner businessman ever present, I saw a poster on the subway for the Bard MBA in Sustainability, and now I have that MBA, and a passion for distributed systems. I believe these systems have the potential to scale in unexpected and positive ways that could lead us into a startlingly different future, where profit is clean, and trust is a given. That was the premise of my book, Blockchain: The Next Everything, from Scribner.  In March, 2020, I had Covid-19, in NYC, and once the city began to recover I hit the road to report and capture images for Postcards from Pandemic, my journey into the heart of America in the time of virus. Now I’m ghostwriting a few books and working on a one person performance about how I thought my family might be a cult — but in the end decided to join it.