And Now Introducing …

THE STORY Seven years ago, award-winning journalist, Jake Hansen, torched his life after leaking an investigative article on political corruption and the cartel, online. Now, drowning in addiction and regret, Jake is a private investigator who co-owns a dive bar with his two closest friends- a retired NYPD detective, Pete Mills and an ex-con, Lamar […]

Fernando, Freddie, Rolando and Me: part 1

Since Rolando’s first fall in February of 2022 (a few days before the Rams-Bengals Super Bowl in Los Angeles) it felt like a yearly February pilgrimage to the hospital. It seemed like he was always stricken with some severe medical issue every February. February ’22 it was a Cardiac episode, February ’23 it was a […]

Fav Chef and the Golden Run

It started as a lark. A contest I read about on Instagram and told my self, ‘What the hell.’ As a long time worker in the hospitality industry, I’ve always considered myself a writer first and foremost and this past year, I finished my first novel. Now, I’ve written fifteen or so screenplays, TV pilots, […]

Rolando Eats

It arrived like a wraith in the night. I’d heard the warnings on the television and perhaps read an article and maybe told an off-handed joke about the ‘virus’ but the realities of COVID didn’t really hit me until they shut down everything in March. And then it became all too real. No job, no […]