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 had always written, but in positions of public trust, I never considered publishing my work.

At 52, I published my first article explaining 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.

At 53, my literary essay was published in AGNI (Boston University). I have also published in Bellevue Literary Review, with work pending at the Yale Review. My book, An Informed Citizenry: How the Modern Federal Government Operates, is being used at the university level to teach how today’s federal government functions.

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. My writing focuses on that gap.