Articles, Poems, & Fiction

I've worked as a journalist for 25 years, and have written more than 2000 articles.  Most of my journalism nowadays consists of travel features, hotel/restaurant/city attraction reviews, and concert/music reviews.  My publication credits include articles in The Sunday Post (a newspaper published in Scotland, with over a million readers!), My Weekly (a British women's magazine), First for Women, Family Fun, and lots of other fine magazines and newspapers.  Links to some of my published fiction and articles follow:

Splash  (feature articles:  Best of Cape May, Cool Hotels of Manhattan)

40 Plus Travel & Leisure Magazine (Jam Cruise feature)

Wild Violet magazine (Blues Cruise feature)

Live Life Travel magazine (review of The Library Hotel)

Guide Around The World (Abruzzo travel feature)

Wild Violet (Abruzzo feature)

Beaches, Beaches (Ocean Grove article)

Real Travel Adventures (Spring Lake, NJ feature)

Thrive NYC (Orlando article)

Real Travel Adventures  (Ocean Grove feature)

Grandparents Magazine (Ocean Grove feature)

One of my poems, from Red Booth Review:

Miracle in Clearwater   There’s a miracle in Clearwater: Ugly Duckling Car Sales, where wonder never fails. Between Pelican Car Wash and the Amoco gas station, Ugly Duckling is the best place in the entire Florida state to go for Christmas vacation. At Ugly Duckling, the Mother of Jesus gets her own parking lot, with slick white benches  and smooth-hewned pews. Out-of-towners bow down, adoring amidst whiffs of spic and span sedans, hot-waxed hatchbacks, and Amoco gas. They burn candles, praising beneath purple and yellow and blue and green rainbow shades on cloudy panes of Ugly Duckling glass, making the shape of a perfect Virgin Mary.

I wrote a few articles (none of which remain on-line) about my cousin's daughter Laurie Show.  Laurie was brutally murdered by three teenagers in 1991, five days before Christmas and a few weeks short of her 17th birthday.  The ringleader was Lisa Michelle Lambert, who stalked Laurie relentlessly for months before the murder.  Lambert remains in jail, where I believe she should stay for all eternity.  You can read about the case here.

Because of the efforts of Laurie's mother and father, Hazel & John Show, Pennsylvania now has a strong anti-stalking law.  If anyone anywhere is being stalked or harassed, please take it seriously and call the authorities.  Do it in Laurie's memory.

UPDATE!!  Wednesday, June 1, 2005:  From the Lancaster New Era, Lancaster, PA:

"JUSTICE HAS PREVAILED"

The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Tuesday, May 31, that it would not listen to further arguments on the case, marking the end of a dozen years of legal appeals by murderer Lisa Michelle Lambert.  "Lisa Lambert will spend the rest of her life behind bars for the brutal and senseless killing of Laurie Show," said state Attorney General Tom Corbett. 

May Hazel & John finally find comfort at the end of a long and harrowing road, and may Lisa Michelle Lambert and her co-conspirators live with their actions for the rest of their days.  And Laurie, may she rest in peace with God and Grammy.  Justice has prevailed.