Now: National rewrite editor. Past: I tell Southern stories for neighbors and the world. Joined USA Today Network/Gannett in 2021. Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow, 2018. Ex-New Orleans Times-Picayune, WGBH News, Boston Globe, etc. Author of the critically acclaimed book "The Secret History of Home Economics." Fan of cats, knitting, cooking, books, old houses, history and change, people who are left out, the way we live now and what makes us tick.