It’s a familiar feeling to anyone who has spent any time driving around Greensboro lately. The light up ahead is turning yellow just as you notice the man standing up ahead with a cardboard sign. Whatever else you might have been thinking about is suddenly superseded by one urgent silent thought: Oh please don’t let the light turn red until I’ve gotten through the intersection.

—from “The Tao of Panhandling”

 

New York Times, March 9, 2006, “Inviting Anarchy Into My Home”

Triad City Beat, February 26, 2014, “Fresh Eyes”

Triad City Beat, April 16, 2014, “The Tao of Panhandling”

Triad City Beat, October 28, 2015, “Shattered: Depression, guns and the deadly result”

Book Magazine, March-April, 2002, “On the Road with the Evasion Kid: An Underground Author Shows How Much @#%$ Fun You Can Have When Money Doesn’t Matter”

Attache, April 2005, “A Matter of Taste: Our Curious Relationship With Food”

USAirways, September 2007, “A Formula for Happiness”