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Other Writings Since high school, I have been trying to turn myself into a writer. Perhaps I am a bit slow, but 20 years later, I sold my first freelance piece to the Washington Post. Since then, they have bought four other pieces on topics ranging from food to travel to how to talk to kids about difficult subjects. In 1994, I wrote about about a month-long business trip to Kenya and Uganda. Last year I also joined Toastmasters, for which my goal is to write and deliver 10 speeches in a year.

People have asked me if I have posted any of my other works on my web site. So, I have added this page and will start culling through my various screeds and start publishing them here.

I will start with my most recent pieces, apart from my entries on The Musical Almanac. These are the Toastmaster speeches. Remember that for the most part, these were written to be spoken and so might seem a little odd in tone. I love writing. In fact if I don't write every day, I feel a bit off kilter. I hope that in the piece you see here, you might find something that touches you as it did me.

Toastmaster Speeches

Speech #1: When the Student is Ready	Speech #2: Lessons Young People Can Teach Us
Speech #3: You Can Build A Web Site, But You Can't Make Them Come	Speech #4: To Name A Cat
Speech #5: When The Question's Death	Speech #6: Tai Chi and Me
Speech #7: Listening to Depression	Speech #8: To Genome or Not Genome
Speech #9: Help Save the World	Speech #10: Fear No More
Speech ATM #1: Change Your Luck	ATM #2: Teeny and Tiger go to Pisciotta
Speech ATM #3: Algerian Hospitality	ATM #4: