• A radio news and feature correspondent
• The outdoor editor for The New Mexican
• A home remodeling columnist for The New Mexican
  
• A columnist for the International Reading Association
  
• An associate editor with a community newspaper
  
• A documentary producer for the National Park Service
  
• The publisher and managing editor for The Woolly Times,
  an international quarterly magazine for wool growers and fiber artists
  

• Frontier Magazine
  
• Ceramics Monthly
  
• New Mexico Magazine
  
• National Parks
  
• New Mexico Journey
  
• Farm Family America
  
• Albuquerque Journal
  
• Western Outdoors
  
• Orion

Education

University of New Mexico
M.A. Secondary Education / Reading K-12, 1992

Adams State College, Colorado
Secondary Teaching Certificate, 1979

Long Beach State University, California
B.A. Creative Writing, 1974

Orange Coast Jr. College, California
A.A. General / English, 1971