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  • Brookfield, CT

When I applied to college at 17 -- yes, I&#39;m up there, that was 1973 -- I put down &#34;freelance writer&#34; as my career goal.  And by golly, that&#39;s largely what happened...although I&#39;ve had &#34;real&#34; jobs along the way, such as legal journalist in San Francisco, book columnist for the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, and publishing reporter in New York City.  But my greatest passion, writing-wise, has been books -- I&#39;ve written books on legal education, building a sports car from a kit, and on Habitat for Humanity -- check &#39;em out on Amazon, or my never-updated (sigh) website -- and a (so far) unpublished novel.

You&#39;ll notice two things from the paragraph above -- a major California connection, and that my books always seem to involve <i>doing</i> something.  (Editors didn&#39;t like my working title for the Habitat book, <i>Talk is Cheap</i> -- can&#39;t imagine why!!!)  Because I realized, in my 40&#39;s, that I was less interested in getting rich / famous / respected through writing, than helping create a more just / caring / comfortable world for everyone...because <i>I</i> couldn&#39;t be happy if <i>everyone</i> didn&#39;t have at least the<i> opportunity</i> to be happy.

Yup, there&#39;s the California stuff again...where I hope to get back to, eventually.

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