I'm an author, writer, and former magazine editor based in Los Angeles. A UCLA grad, I'm a Vietnam vet who served in Japan and Vietnam from 1966-1969. I was the senior articles editor for Modern Maturity magazine for 18 years, and in 1992 a special report I edited was nominated for a National Magazine Award. I’ve sold travel and humor pieces to such publications as National Geographic Traveler, Islands, Expedia Travels, Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Newsday, and the lead piece in Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (Travelers’ Tales, 2000). In 1996 I published How to Write Attention-Grabbing Query & Cover Letters (Writer’s Digest Books). In 2010 I joined the Peace Corps and taught English in the Philippines for two years. In 2014 I published my Vietnam memoir Saigon Tease: So, What Did You Do in Nam, Dad? (Amazon Kindle). In 2015 it won the Silver Medal (Nonfiction-Autobiography-Memoir category) in the Global Ebook Awards competition. In 2014 I published a collection of my humor articles from around the world: How I Killed Off My Ex-Wife and Other Far-Flung Misadventures (Amazon Kindle). In 2020 I published a memoir of my two years in the Philippines as a Peace Corps teacher: Dispatches from Paradise: Two Years in the Land of Smiles (Amazon ebook and paperback).