About me

I’m a writer based in Palo Alto, California. I write for magazines, websites and corporate clients. My subjects are technology, culture, parenting and travel.

In my spare time I edit an environmental blog, EarthQuaker.org.

By training I’m a television producer. I’ve also worked as a professional name-generator, theatrical stage hand and commissioned playwright.

You may have heard me editorialize on KQED radio.

To see some of my writing, check out:

• A rumination on the quality of architecture in Silicon Valley.
• A history of Stanford’s famed research nursery school.
• The story of a failed attempt to find the world’s tallest tree.
• A paean to the virtues of Scooby Doo!