For twenty years, I was one of the people who ran the American federal government — across five Cabinet agencies, from GS-3 to GS-15, co-authoring strategic plans and directing billion-dollar budgets at some of the country's most consequential institutions.

At 47, a rare neuromuscular disease ended that career. At 50, I started a new one.

I write creatively as a lifelong passion; and I write to translate what the government actually does — not what politicians say about it — for citizens who deserve to understand what they have, and what they stand to lose.

My op-eds in The Hill have been cited on cable news across the political spectrum.

My literary essays appear in AGNI (Boston University) and the Bellevue Literary Review, with work pending at the Yale Review. My book, An Informed Citizenry: How the Modern Federal Government Operates, is being used as a civics resource at the university level.

I am an Adjunct Fellow at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy at Salve Regina University.

"Politics gets the airtime. Government does the work."