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.
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.
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?
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.
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.'
A Philadelphia Story
The oarsmen of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River. Originally published in the magazine The Yacht, under the title, ‘Boathouse Row.’
