Ten years as reporter and an editor at Milwaukee Journal (now the Journal Sentinel). Twenty years as owner-operator of national multi-media business. Have written books, edited books, and published books, including bestsellers, and have written TV scripts. Have edited more than 100 books and tens of thousands of news and feature articles. Taught writing at two universities, one college, one community college, and have tutored grade school and high school students, college students, and adults. Degree in journalism, grad study in history.

The only thing I do that resembles a hobby is write poetry. I used to play a lot of baseball. These days, I watch other people play it. I’m interested in a lot of things. Here, in alphabetical order, are a few. art, baseball, coffee, dogs, elephants, football, genealogy, history, ice cream, journalism, Kool- Aid, literature, Mozart, news, October, politics, quizzes, rock, Shakespeare, tennis, UW, Vancouver, wife-son-daughter-granddaughter, can’t think of one, yellow, zoos. I could go through the alphabet a couple more times, but I won’t.