Male

65

I write fiction and novels and am trying to get my stuff published as commercial fiction. I worked as an investigative reporter for 37 years, 25 of them for the San Francisco Chronicle. I used to teach journalism at Cal State Hayward. I served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War but generally oppose the use of military force. I am researching the role of the mass media in the internship of Japanese Americans during WWII hoping to turn the material into an academic article and a book length manuscript. I am a union supporter, member and former officer. I led two union strikes. I helped organize shops. Some of my stories got California labor law changed. I like a good fight and hate seeing power abused. Despite this, I think life is generally pretty amusing, and I find myself laughing at something absurd almost every day.