I'm a freelance writer and sometimes photographer. I'm an award-winning author and photographer who's a native of Washington, D.C. Although I live less than 30 miles from where I was born (the old Doctor's Hospital is long gone), I have traveled extensively in the intervening years. For too many years, I was on the road for up to ten months a year. I'm naturally curious so I look for fascinating and unusual stories and people and delight in writing about them, whether they live next door (figuratively) or across an ocean.