Articles - A Sample
A selection of feature articles and opinion pieces written for various magazines and newspapers, as well as for assorted communication vehicles for non-profit organizations.
Steaming through Africa
In my late twenties, I quit my job as a magazine editor in London to travel the rivers of Africa by public transport. This article about the Upper Nile was written for and sold to The New York Times.
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The Novel as Guidebook
A lifetime ago, John Fowles’s novel The Magus sent me searching the islands of Greece for a lost Eden. Eventually, I discovered Alonissos, in the Northern Sporades. Forty years later, I went back for the first time.
Written for The Boston Globe.
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Whose Starting Line is it, anyway?
The 26.2 Foundation, whose signature project is the development of an International Marathon Center in Hopkinton, MA, asks, in their March 2023 newsletter: To whom does the Boston Marathon starting line really belong?
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Waiting for the Revolution
I worked for years for Accion -- an international non-profit dedicated to serving the world's entrepreneurial poor through microfinance and financial inclusion. I wrote this piece for Accion's think tank, the Center for Financial Inclusion, upon a return trip from Nairobi.
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Magic Bus
"The signs for Pune start appearing miles before the city outskirts – an endless parade of towering, glossy billboards promising luxe apartment life in this boomtown of New India: 'One Home, Numerous Wishes!' 'Make Life an Occasion.' 'Experience the Delightful Living!'
Fighting innumeracy in the villages of rural India. Written for Accion's donor magazine, 'Ventures.'
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A Philadelphia Story
The oarsmen of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River. Originally published in the magazine The Yacht, under the title, ‘Boathouse Row.’
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