My article, "But That's Why You Fly," appeared in the July 2004 issue of the Smithsonian Institute magazine Air & Space/Smithsonian. The article chronicles my experience as a mission controller for the first space shuttle mission, STS-1, and discusses that flight's perils and parallels to Columbia's final flight.

My Op-Ed article, "The True Cost of Exploring Space," appeared in the January 30th, 2004 issue of the Tacoma News Tribune, and again in the February 10th, 2004 issue of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

My most recent mystery story, "Just Passin' Through" is now appearing in the mystery anthology, Who Died in Here? by Penury Press. The book is also available from Amazon and is also being distributed to bookstores by Adventure Pubications, Baker & Taylor and Ingrams. So feel free to order a couple dozen copies and/or call every bookstore in your state asking for it! This was my second mystery sale. The other was to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine a few years ago.

I also write other fiction, non-fiction, essays, political pieces, and humor. Check out a few samples:

• Afternoon Delight
  Mom really would have preferred the souffle'.
• Samaritan
  Heroism comes in many forms.
• Significant Other
  Sometimes, men just need a little push.
• Duty
  The cost of peace is often measured in blood.
• Repro Man
  Who says office sex is bad for your career?

• Raid!
  It's the end of the world. And we know who to blame.

• Birthday Present
  Aging and kids: immortality isn't everything.
• Gun Nuts
  I rarely spend my mornings running half-naked through our neighborhood, waving a handgun over my head. Only once, in fact.