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Biography

I grew up in New England, in Oxford, Mass., near a field where kids played football and baseball. Like most pleasant childhood memories, it's a housing development today.

From childhood I loved reading, music, the outdoors and sports -- including motorsports, nurtured from pre-school at Thompson Raceway, a road course within 10 miles, an easy hitchhike or bike ride.

These things carried me through high school, when a career path was determined by something enjoyable, as well as challenging.

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst was perfect: Close to home but away, cheap, diverse, with accessible athletic facilities and the ability to facilitate career advancement through work on the student newspaper and yearbook, plus professional internships.

After college, seven years of general sports writing included covering short track racing and bleeding regularly for Boston's sports teams. In 1983 supplying a volunteer column on Riverside Park Speedway for Speedway Scene led to covering the Winston Cup Series for the paper in 1984.

In fall '84, I was hired into the PR Department at Daytona International Speedway. After 12 years, in NASCAR.COM's second year, I became NASCAR's second full-time employee on the site and the rest, as they say, is history.