I’ve been writing almost fifty years. I am a double Leo, vegetarian, peace advocate and an astrologer/astronomer. I’m also a literary omnivore, screenwriter and coffee connoisseur; a reformer. Dreamer, fallen spirit and struggling angel. A military brat, a military veteran. A teacher, editor, and news and features writer, a 100 mile-an-hour guy in a 60 mile-an-hour world.
I moved from Texas to Omaha to get a graduate degree in English from UNO. I had been the city hall reporter on the Longview News-Journal, and prior to that I dropped 12 years in military journalism as a news service editor and a staff writer on Airman, the official magazine of the Air Force. I was twice named the top feature writer in the United States Government. The first story that won was on a French citizen who fought with the Resistance against the Nazis in World War II. After the war he became an American citizen and spent 20 years in the U.S. Air Force. He was “A Man of Liberty” which is posted under “Airman Stories.” The second story that placed was about an infantry chaplain who was a rabbi with American forces pushing across France in 1944. When the war was over the rabbi founded a house in Stuttgart, Germany, that reunited families decimated by the holocaust, when and if they could. We called this man’s living example of love for humanity “Rabbi, Teach Us” also posted under “Airman Stories.”
I enjoyed teaching, so I stayed in academia and taught all of the writing courses you can name at UNO and Metropolitan Community College for 20 years. I was a corporate trainer at First Data Resources for three years, hired to evaluate, rewrite and then deliver the company’s effective business writing course. Concurrently, I always wrote for Omaha’s weekly tabloids, covering such stories as the failed Franklin Credit Union for the Metropolitan in 1989; skyrocketing CEO pay in corporate America for The Reader in the ‘90s. In 2012 I helped get a weekly tabloid called Shout up and running. As executive editor, I wrote stories, hired staff, and set the journalistic tone for the paper.
I’ve also written three screenplays, two volumes of poetry and a collection of marijuana short stories that remains the only literary fiction on the subject. These items can all be viewed or purchased via TheWritingDog.com.
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