For a number of years now I’ve been contributing stories to Experience Life, the magazine of Life Time, Inc., on how to deal with a whole gamut of stressful situations, from taking a new job to handling toxic friendships to deciding what to do with all your stuff when you die.
One of the many pieces I’ve written for American Craft, the magazine of the American Craft Council. This was a fascinating dive into the world of perfumery. The monopoly of the great perfume houses like Chanel has been broken in recent years as the internet and freelance perfumers have unveiled the mysteries of scent. Now anyone can craft a new perfume.
I love applying the resources of fiction to content marketing. For Jhana, an online resource for educating managers in the tech industries (acquired a few years ago by StevenCovey) I created a fictional, but reality-based, series of stories called New Manager Diary. It follows the adventures of a young manager learning how to maximize his team’s potential. In this one, he handles a disgruntled employee older and more experienced than he is.
In one of my pieces for the Carleton College alumni magazine, I explored the college’s rich resources for studying and practicing Buddhism, in the context of more and more students taking up meditation to cope with Covid’s disruptions and with political polarization.
In this piece for the magazine of the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health, I examined the ongoing crisis of demoralization in the medical profession, driven by factors that range from the corporatization of medicine to the effects of the pandemic. This issue of Advances won a Gold Medal as the Best Single Issue in the 2022 Educational Advertising Awards.
I won a Minnesota Magazine Award for this story about the building of the beautiful chapel at the University of Saint Catherine in Saint Paul, MN. And, in 2024, the university asked me back to do a follow-up article on the chapel’s history on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.