Before Allen Ginsburg became a poet full time, he spent five years working for a Madison Avenue advertising firm. Here's what I do to keep my son Simon in diapers.

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• Oral history

  Training at two leading oral history programs, I've recorded the stories of people for all walks of life. Here's a passage from a life history I recorded with Daviea Davis, an artist in Pittsburgh:

  "I had two children in a row and lost my mind, because everything with babies is undone repeatedly. You feed them and they get hungry again. Clean the house and it gets dirty again. Forever. Making mosaics was something I could do that was not un-doable. It was permanent. I could say, 'That's what I did today.' Not every artist is able to make a living being an artist. That's a crazy thought. Still, I just feel like I want to do this. It's so beautiful."

• Teaching and workshops

  

  I am currently developing curricula for the Organic School Project in Chicago.

  I also lead customized workshops that help people understand complex environmental issues.

• Blogging and content writing

  

  I've produced compelling blogs, web sites, press kits, and more.

  I wrote the materials that won Chicago's innovative household hazardous waste facility (under the green roof shown here) a prestigious engineering award.

• Editing

  I've edited reports to federal agencies, conference proceedings, academic papers, and literary manuscripts. I ghost-edited the 300-page proceedings for this conference on Great Lakes ecology.

• Research

  

  I find critical information via academic experts, government records, and shoe-leather reporting. When writing about cancer, I visited the National Museum of Health and Medicine at Walter Reed Army Hospital to check out tumors like this one.