October 2009     The Vocabula Review (www.vocabula.com), Highlighted reprint (an encore reprinting) in October 2009 of essay originally published in 2004.

 

May 2009             Quicksilver, Literary journal of the graduate program in creative writing at the University of Texas at El Paso (featured essay: creative non-fiction).

 

May 2009             Galveston County Daily News, Effects of ruby red slippers under house destroyed by Hurricane Ike in small neighborhood in Galveston.

 

April 2009            The Superstition Review, Literary journal that takes its name from the Superstition Mountains of Arizona and is published by Arizona State University; the Spring 2009 edition features authors T. Coraghessan Boyle Sherman Alexie and Dinty Moore.

 

January 2004      Galveston County Daily News, Reflections on teaching.

 

January 2001      Notre Dame Magazine online, Personal narrative essay (creative nonfiction)

 

April 1997            Creative Nonfiction, Personal narrative essay (creative nonfiction). John McPhee edition includes work by McPhee Phillip Lopate Ellen Gilchrist.

 

February 1990    Notre Dame Magazine,  Feature story exploring ethical dimensions in gambling.

The Series: Baseball and the Meaning of America editor (monograph)     

 

August 1994        National Endowment for the Humanities, Sole author of roughly $100000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities including art and museum exhibits on Baseball and the Meaning of America.

 

Two-Year College English Assn-Southwest Newsletter, Ground breaking proposal for restructuring the research paper required in college composition courses.