I'm a veteran newspaper reporter and editor (currently working in those capacities for an independent free weekly in rural and suburban South Jersey), former advertising copywriter, long-time health and environmental writer and blogger, and essayist whose commentaries and op-eds (both humorous and serious) have appeared in such papers as The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Berkshire Eagle, The Record of Bergen County, N.J. the Orlando Sentinel and the St, Louis Post-Dispatch, as well as The SandPaper, a weekly newsmagazine in southern Ocean County, N.J. Fifty of those essays, chosen from several hundred that appeared in print over three decades, are included in this collection, which was published by Divertir Publishing at the end of 2014.