I worked more than a decade for daily and weekly newspapers in southeastern Massachusetts before starting the transition to blogging and new media in 2004. My experience in journalism includes two years writing for weekly papers, 11 years as a suburban correspondent, staff writer, political reporter and bureau chief at The (Brockton) Enterprise and Cape Cod Times, and three years as copy editor at The Enterprise and The Herald News of Fall River (yes, home to Lizzie Borden).
My last hurrah in journalism was covering a murder trial on Nantucket as a stringer for the New York Post in June 2007, after covering an earlier murder trial for the Post on Cape Cod in the autumn of 2006.
I graduated summa cum laude from Bridgewater State College in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in history, having minored in English. While at BSC I loaded trucks for UPS at night, wrote for the college newspaper and met my future wife.
I enlisted in the Air National Guard in May 1985 and served for six years as a power production specialist in the civil engineering squadron of the 102nd Fighter Interceptor Wing stationed at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod, until my honorable discharge in June 1991. During my six years with the Guard, I was sent on annual deployments to West Berlin (in 1986, before the Wall came down), Minneapolis, Anchorage and Jamaica.
Previous work experience includes stints as a bartender, waiter and cook, landscaper, bookstore clerk, commercial fisherman, merchant mariner, campaign worker and legislative aide to a state representative, and media adviser to the Clean Power Now renewable energy non-profit on Cape Cod.
I've written extensively about Cape Wind, the proposed offshore wind project for Nantucket Sound, at the online newsite capecodtoday.com and in op-eds for The Providence Journal.
I've run a half-dozen marathons though none in the last decade because my knees won't let me. In lieu of running, I take brisk morning walks and occasionally encounter deer ambling along local cranberry bogs. I am also an avid Red Sox fan, although a considerably less obnoxious one since the Bosox won the World Series (ahem, twice) in recent years.
My wife and I live with our son and daughter, ages 10 and 8, in Plymouth, Mass., aka, "America's Hometown."
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