Selected Stories

 

 

I'm Not Cynthia ...

 

Washingtonian Magazine, June 2000

 

... but since everyone's calling for her, I want to know who she is.

 

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Who's Calling?

 

Washingtonian Magazine, October 2001

 

I used to hang up on annoying telemarketers. Then I decided to become one myself.

 

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One on One

Washingtonian Magazine, December 2001




 

What do you do when your son thinks he's ready to beat you, one on one, in basketball?

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Space Oddity

 

Washington Post Sunday Magazine, Dec. 9, 2001
 

 

Are you ready for a vacation on the moon? Don't laugh.

 

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A Soldier's Story 

 

Reader's Digest, May 2002

 

His photograph has stared at me for 30 years. Finding him became an obsession.

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How the G.I.'s in Vietnam Don't Learn About the War

 

New York Times Magazine, April 12, 1970

 

The military's hand on giving out the news limits a soldier's view of his own war to little more than what he can see down the sights of his rifle.

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