Greetings and welcome to my world...
Or the part you have to search the Net for, anyway. I am a San Francisco-based writer and this web site is my electronic calling card. On these pages you will find links to my recent stories, both printed and spoken on public radio; a page of books I’ve written and anthologies that contain my essays; something akin to a blog that is really more a series of mini personal essays for all six of my loyal and adoring fans; a link to a separate web site devoted entirely to my most recent book Office Mate; information about my consulting practice; and my bio. All the usual stuff you find on the typical writer's Web site. Thank you for visiting. You know how piteous writers are in their attention-seeking behaviors. I'm glad I'm not like that.
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New, or Practically New
- I reviewed Anne Lamott’s new novel Imperfect Birds in the April issue of San Francisco Magazine.
- I taped recent segments about office romance on CBS's The Early Show and MoneyWatch.
- Read the latest press on Office Mate and check out video and audio clips of our appearances here.
- Check out my latest "City Brights" column for the San Francisco Chronicle.
- My second six-word memoir appears in the book It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.
- I reviewed Melanie Gideon’s new memoir in the August issue of San Francisco Magazine.
- See my photo—along with that of many writer colleagues—on the back page of the July "Best of the Bay” issue of San Francisco magazine. I have a ditty about corkage fees in there too.
- My most recent Perspective for KQED: “Economic News for Dummies.”
- Fame and Fortune: Currently working on, and shocked to find I’m making headway with, the latter. Partly because of a bit of movement on the former. Perhaps endurance is the key to everything after all.

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