Welcome to coffeericeandbeans.com, my corner of the web and the place to find samples of my work.

Posted here are just a few examples of the thousands of bylined articles I've written over the years for magazines, newspapers and web sites. Since 2001, I have specialized in writing for the motorcycle press on a wide range of topics including industry trends, legislative and safety issues, travel stories and product evaluations.

As a free-lance editor and translator, my current projects include contributing to the Puerto Rico Online Encyclopedia project of the Puerto Rican Endowment for the Humanities. I also have substantial experience editing materials on investing, personal finance and banking, having worked for clients such as Argus Research, an independent research firm covering Wall Street, and Banco Popular, the largest bank in Puerto Rico and the largest Latino bank in the United States with branches in five states. At the other end of the spectrum, I've taught English as a volunteer in a rural high school in Costa Rica.

"Variety is the spice of life," goes the cliché, but the cliché has it wrong. Variety is the main ingredient.

All material on this site is © Lance Oliver except where otherwise noted. Please do not copy, republish or reproduce without permission or otherwise steal my work. If you see something you like and want to draw others' attention to it, feel free to add a link from your site to mine.