: About Me

I am a California native residing in the Los Angeles area and have spent much of my working life in the financial industry. My passions are movies and entertainment and those subjects have dominated my writing efforts. I am a student of the cinema with lifelong extensive reading and research on all aspects and history of the subject. Travel is also a passion and I have recently begun translating travel experiences into articles.

Education:

Los Angeles Valley College 1981 Associate in Arts Degree in Journalism

California State University Northridge 1983 Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism

Educational Honors:

1979 Fall Semester Dean's List Los Angeles Valley College

1980 Los Angeles Valley College Beta Phi Gamma Certificate of Membership

1981 Fall Semester Dean's List Los Angeles Valley College

1981 Los Angeles Valley College Occupational Certificate in Journalism

Journalism Credits:

Hollywood Studio Magazine (1981-1988) Contributing Editor with 33 articles published.

Classic Images (1983-2006) Contributing writer with 120 articles, 37 reviews and 87 columns published.

Favorite Westerns and Serial World (1984-1995) Contributing writer with 22 articles published.

The Pen and Quill (1984-2008) Contributing writer with 41 articles published.

Also published in The Antique trader Weekly, Autograph Times, The Big Reel, Burbank Times, Collector's News, Films of the Golden Age, Movie Collectors World, Nostalgia World and The Tolucan.

Journalism Honors:

1980 LAVC Journalism Award Third Place Review

1980 LAVC Journalism Award two Honorable Mentions Reviews

1981 LAVC Journalism Award Second Place Review

1981 LAVC Journalism Award Honorable Mention Review

1986 Writer's Digest Magazine Writing Competition Honorable Mention Scripts

1994 Iliad Press Literary Awards Honorable Mention Poetry

1994 National Library of Poets Editor's Choice Award

1995 Creative Arts and Sciences Enterprises Accomplishment of Merit

1998 The Pen & Quill Certificate of Appreciation

1999 The Pen & Quill Certificate of Appreciation

2002 Famous Poets Society Certificate of Appreciation

My passion is ...

Travel and there is not enough time in a lifetime to see and experience all the world has to offer.

I know too much about ...

Movies are an obsession and my mind is a fountain of trivia.

My parents always told me ...

Save your money because that rainy day will come and today every day has become a rainy day.

My childhood ambition ...

Being wealthy in order to free of work and financial worries to totally enjoy every second of this short life we are given.

My favorite memory ...

The first time I saw actress Natalie Wood in person when I was a child.

Why I write ...

It seemed like a good idea to get paid for writing about movies. I realize my limitations.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Film biographies, TV crime series, 1980s new wave

My first job ...

Pumping gas which dates me from another era.

My best moment ...

Visiting Paris for the first time and seeing the Eiffel Tower looming in the distance.

My inspiration ...

is to possess the wordsmith skills of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Travel > Kansas Destinations A visitor's guide to John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon

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During the 1860s there was a gold rush happening in Canyon City, Oregon and when a U.S. cavalry troop was escorting a gold shipment to fund the Civil War, a trooper picked up some curious objects along the way. He showed his finds to a young minister and amateur paleontologist named Thomas Condon who became excited over what were fossils and wanted to know where they came from. The fossils had been found in erosion exposed cliffs now called the Painted Hills overlooking the John Day River. Condon explored the region and his discoveries amazed the scientific community and paleontologists ha...

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