First Published Work

I wrote this for a new local weekly gay magazine  in Chicago 1994 called Babble. I am happy to say I can claim Publish Writer to my life's achievement. Its a music column written as a 14 year old girl's diary. The picture is from a 1970s Seventeen magazine the publisher had in his possession and we were stopped dead in our tracks by the picture. The picture was in their letter's to the editor column or an advice column I can't remember. We created this character around the picture and came up with Hanna. I wrote the column for about 10 weeks and always hours before the deadline.