A product of suburban Columbus, Ohio, I’m a Buckeye all the way (B.A. and M.A. in Journalism, Ohio State), even though I have lived in and loved Michigan for decades, during and after a 20-year newspaper career. (Charlotte Observer, Palm Beach Post, Detroit Free Press.)

Married 42 years with no offspring, Nicholas DeGrazia and I call Port Huron home but since 2022 have been snow-birding for months at a time in a small motor coach so we can explore those parts of the U.S. and Canada we can’t see by boat.

Over the years, I’ve hiked to the top of a fourteener in Colorado, operated a B&B on a Great Lakes beach, hired two Pulitzer-prize-winning newspaper photographers and edited the winning entry of another, produced all manner of other written, visual, and digital content, spent a glamorous night on the Orient Express, and lived to tell about a 300-mile Lake Huron adventure in a 14-foot aluminum fishing boat.

These days, while on the move, I wrote one novel and have started another. Check out my Instagram. I’m having some fun over there.