Experienced news reporter and author of books and magazine articles in the field of general news, leisure, travel, sports, health care and business/finance/real estate. I am an author and former New York Times reporter who currently writes, edits and does special projects for a variety of clients including consultants, lawyers, and finance advisors. Recently, I worked with personal finance expert Douglas Andrew on his New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller The Last Chance Millionaire, published in June 2007 by Warner Business Books.. I also helped ghost-write his 2008 book, Millionaire by Thirty.For more than 12 years, starting at the dawn of the World Wide Web, I have been an online editor and writer. Currently I am Senior Travel feature columnist for Suite101.com, a 12-year-old online magazine that gets over 10-million unique page views a month, My news, travel and business journalism and book reviews appear frequently in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Was