He has written syndicated pieces for the Chicago Tribue travel section and Sunday Magazine, and travel pieces for The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News. He was for several years an editor at Playboy magazine, and has written for TV shows on VH1 and an original screenplay, "Club Paradise," which was released in 1985 and starred Robin Williams and Peter OToole. He currently writes for Smithsonian, and is author of THE ART OF MONEY (Chronicle Books).