All I ever wanted to do was write.
From the time I was in junior high I wanted to write. Not books … I wanted to write news. I even tried to assemble my own small printing press with a childhood Christmas present one year.
And write I did. I started in high school as editor of the East High School paper in Sioux City, Iowa. I wrote in college, at the State University of Iowa, where I majored in journalism (B.A. 1964) and was city editor for The Daily Iowan.
Finally, real newspapers … the Sioux City Journal for a short time, The Miami Herald for longer. Papers in Huntington WV and Albany NY. There were other jobs, too, in public relations in New Jersey and Michigan, in radio stations in Massachusetts … but I was always writing.
Then a real career change. I went into politics and was a Massachusetts State Representative for eight years. Again, I kept writing … a column a week for the Westfield Evening News.
Those columns appear here, along with my new, three year old blog, and a few photos from along the way. Enjoy!