Most of the stuff I've written -- not counting things related to my newspaper columns -- are pretty hard to find. They're scattered around in various magazines. When I'm particularly bored, I'll type them up (if they're not already computer-stored), HTML-ize them, and add them here.

• I may as well start with the first thing I ever got published. It was in 1980. The editors of Emergency magazine deemed it worthy of the space, yet not worthy of any payment. I let that slide the first time, but decided that was the last time I'd ever let a magazine make money off my writing without my getting my fair share. It's also my first humor piece: what really goes through the heads of ambulance drivers as they scream down the road?

• Thus, the second article that got published, I was sure to be paid. Also in Emergency magazine, it's about the most unusual ambulance I've ever seen.

• Actually, I've been interested in journalism for quite some time, starting as a photographer. More on my brief career as a photographer is on this page.

• People are lucky when they have good friends. It is a difficult thing when you outlive them. It was my honor to eulogize my friend Jerry Olivieri.

• The Killer Tsunami of Christmas 2004 raised awareness of an early article I wrote for Westways magazine in 1986, warning that it's "only a matter of time" until we see a major tsunami.