Author of Double-Parked on Main Street (Ex Machina, 1988), How to Write Fast (Writer’s Digest Books, 1992), Elements of Article Writing: Structure and Flow (Writer’s Digest Books, 1996), Write Faster, Write Better (Writer’s Digest Books, 2004), Good Old Days, My Ass (Family Tree Books, 2012), Achieving Peak Brainpower Through Nutrition/ Brain Power & Nutrition (Tufts/Belvoir, 2014-current editions), The Heart-Brain Diet (co-author, Tufts/Belvoir, 2016-2020 editions), The Healthy-Aging Diet (Tufts/Belvoir, 2017-current editions), The Family Tree Guide to Scandinavian Genealogy (Family Tree Books/Penguin Random House, 2019), MicroHistory: Ideas and inventions that made the modern world (Amazon, 2019), and The Bones of Writing: Structure Secrets for Nonfiction Success (Amazon, 2020).

Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter: Managing Editor, 2004-2016

Family Tree Magazine: Founding editor, contributing editor; History Matters/TimeLines and Now What? columnist, 2007-present

Writer’s Digest magazine: Nonfiction/Freelancer’s Workshop columnist, 1994-2006

Editor of The Family Tree Guide Book: Everything you need to know to trace your genealogy across North America (BetterwayBooks, 2002)

Contributor to The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing (Writer’s Digest Books, 2002) and Writing Voice (Writer’s Digest Books, 2017)

Contributor to The Family Tree Big Book (Betterway Books)

Horizon magazine: film critic and contributing editor, 1982-84

Articles for Travel & Leisure, Playboy, Reader’s Digest, TWA Ambassador, Passages, Savvy, AAA World, Writer’s Digest, Kiwanis, Diversion, Friendly Exchange, Horizon, Databar, American Way, Easy Living, American Lutheran Church News Service, UPI, Newsweek, GE Good Life, River/Land, Self, Link-Up, Ozark, Wisconsin Sportsman, The Lion, Honeywell Qualities, Honeywell World, Light, Dazzle, InTouch, Logic, Express, Midwest Living, Online Access, Online User, St. Paul Pioneer Press Travel section, Family Tree Magazine, The Artist’s Magazine