 He was a reporter for "The Dallas Morning News" from 1984 through 1987, when he returned to Florida and joined the Palm Beach Post.He has written extensively about many different aspects of Florida, and is most notable for his two books "Weird Florida" and "Weird Florida II", and "Black Cloud", a history of the great 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane.His first work of fiction is "Peace River," a historical novel set during the Civil War.