Award-winning journalist, culture fiend, food and cocktail enthusiast, sworn enemy of the superficial, mischief maker and chronicler of all things falling under the circus tent of what Tom Wolfe called "the irresistibly lurid carnival of American life."

I specialize in narrative writing and stories about how we live, including social media, subcultures, lifestyles, socio-cultural phenomena and stories about ordinary people facing universal challenges and experiences.

Currently I'm a senior writer for The Dallas Morning News, where my series on the challenges of a young boy facing imminent blindness was published in early 2012 as an eBook called Zach's Journey. The ongoing series, winner of the 2012 National Headliner Award for feature writing and two-time winner of the Barbara Jordan Media Award, is available here.

As a staff writer for The Seattle Times and Phoenix New Times, I saw the Northern Lights in Iceland, played card games with Apaches, grooved to hip-hop in Havana and ridden a Harley from Seattle to Sturgis, S.D. I also contributed to the Seattle Times' coverage of the shooting deaths of four police officers and subsequent manhunt, which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for breaking-news reporting.

Good food, drink and friends are the mirepoix of life. You can follow my occasional blog posts about cocktails here.

Inset photo: by Tom Fox, The Dallas Morning News

Background photo: Dallas skyline, by Marc Ramirez

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