I am a Vermont-based writer whose focus is contemporary history, it’s roots in the past and its relevance to our future, in Vermont in particular and around the world in general. Climate change is the most dominating force of our time. I have been writing about it, with varying degrees of dismay, since the mid-1990s. Our collective failure to respond to the force has  accelerated migration, flooding, drought, sea rise, and destruction of habitat everywhere. There is no relief in sight, only political flailing, corporate and individual creeping response, and relentless destruction of our forests, water and air. The bulwarks for surviving the future, to me, are family, community, and a return to truth as an antidote to our era of lying. My present projects are: Fatherhood in the Anthropocene, a column about guiding my daughter forward with both deep awareness about climate change and a plan to survive the future. Snow in Hell, a novel in progress about big auto and big oil killing the momentum of climate change in the late 1990s; and The Quibble, a memoir about my two years at the United States Air Force Academy.

My credits include: two Fulbright Fellowships in Central Europe; Pulitzer Prize nomination for In The Rings of Saturn; feature articles in Smithsonian Magazine, Automobile Magazine, Vermont Life, Barre Times-Argus, Occupy .com, and many other outlets. Of all my work on climate, the most widely read was coverage of COP21, the 2015 Paris Agreement Conference, and 10 features while in Paris about the global effort that visualized grappling with the issue that shadows our times. All the COP 21 pieces are available on Occupy.com.