Call me T.J. I’m a Tampa, Florida, native whose gamble on a Bachelor’s degree in creative writing has actually paid off so far.

For more than a decade, writing has been my livelihood. My work has spanned different media and sparked great adventures, sending me to the deserts of Arizona, the beaches of Miami, the highlands of Haiti, shark-depredating waters off the Florida Keys, the corn-covered plains of Iowa, the mountains of North Carolina, Tornado Alley, America’s premier spaceport, the streets of Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

I am currently a full-time journalist for The Epoch Times, where I primarily cover America’s space program, extreme weather, Florida politics, and some environmental features. I have also been challenged to do as much of my own photography as possible.

I have called the paper home for going on three years, and this gig has allowed me to cover a plethora of historical events like the 2024 presidential election, Hurricanes Helene and Milton, tornado outbreaks, armed conflicts abroad, landmark court cases, and the space program.

Before that, I was a digital copywriter, a social media consultant, an assistant editor and senior reporter for one blog and a managing editor for another (under the pseudonym TK Bosacki), a co-founder of two neighborhood magazines, and a co-author of a photography book.

I am also the founder of my own LLC, 27th Latitude Content Curation.

Other things you should know: I graduated from Tampa Jesuit High School in 2012, joined Tau Kappa Epsilon International Fraternity in 2013, and graduated from Spring Hill College in 2016. I’m a PADI-certified scuba diver and an IANTD-certified freediver. I visited 30 nations and territories by the time I was 30, and visited 40/50 states. 

I firmly believe that every day is a new opportunity for something better. It does not matter if it is as small as the taste of your morning coffee or the drive to work. Something about today CAN and WILL be better than yesterday, which should give us all hope and faith in tomorrow.