Selected Writing

Publications
A selected bibliography of my published works is available near the bottom of the about page.

Scholarly Works
- Great Writers' Lessons for Railroad Photographers
- Balancing Technology and Nature in the Coastal Communities of Potiki and The Hungry Tide

Literary Nonfiction
- The Quarry at Lake Kaneyama - Observations from a dying industrial town.
- On Questioning - Struggles with cultural differences in education.
- Grandpa's Directions - A short biography of my grandfather, Walter Frame.
- October - Memories of a steam train and my step sister in the most evocative month.

The China Chronicles
All 25 blog posts documenting the 82 days I spent in Northeast China during the fall of 2005, traveling and looking for steam locomotives. These entries are contained on my blog; to read them sequentially, please use your browser's "back" button to return to this page after completing each post.
- Arrival - 9/23/2005
- Finding Home in Huanan - 9/28/2005
- Purgatory or Paradise? - 9/29/2005
- Onward (Qian Jin) - 10/2/2005
- A Little Money - 10/4/2005
- Light Up the Night - 10/9/2005
- Good and Comfortable - 10/9/2005
- Across the Miles - 10/11/2005
- From the Inside - 10/12/2005
- Daban Friday Morning - 10/13/2005
- A Day Late and a Cycle Short - 10/18/2005
- The Traveler's Reward - 10/21/2005
- Back to Business - 10/26/2005
- Updates - 11/3/2005
- My Career as a Chinese TV Star - 11/9/2005
- Errands - 11/15/2005
- Jingpeng - 11/18/2005
- Laowai - 11/20/2005
- A Long Way - 11/24/2005
- What Is Beauty? - 11/27/2005
- Warmth - 12/4/2005
- Gratitude - 12/5/2005
- The Way to Go - 12/10/2005
- The Other Side of Endings - 12/12/2005
- Departure - 12/18/2005