About Jim Freeman

Covering all, or part, of ten decades, Jim Freeman’s life has been anything but conventional. He’s delivered prescriptions as a kid, sold cars, hoed crops alongside migrant workers, and competed in the show horse circuit. After studying ornamental horticulture at Michigan State, he served in the U.S. Army medical corps between Korea and Vietnam, then spent three decades running his family’s landscape design business.

That experience — sweating payrolls, riding out real estate crises, and wrangling with weather — taught him more about people, patience, and persistence than any classroom could. In 1993, he closed shop, left America behind, and moved to Europe to write, reflect, and ride his motorcycle across unfamiliar ground. He’s written 18 books, all of them available as e-books or print versions. Ten of those books are collections of some 2,000 political and social essays.

His writing is grounded in a wry, often biting sense of humor — both a survival tool and storytelling style. Whether he’s tackling war, inequality, or political hypocrisy, Jim delivers hard truths with wit, irony, and a rare kind of unvarnished clarity. His essays and books reflect a life fully lived, and a mind that never stopped asking questions.

He believes that the best writing opens a conversation — sometimes sharp, sometimes soulful — between reader and author. And like any good conversation, it requires listening.