I grew up in northern New Jersey reading newspapers like The Bergan Record, The New York Times, The Post and The Wall Street Journal. As a child, while my friends were ga-ga over the Beatles, I was reading the biographies newspaper columnist H.L. Menchen and publisher W.R. Hurst.
Life has a way of sidetracking even the best of intentions.
I never got that journalism degree and although I've written articles for four publications, two screen plays, and had my poetry published in several newspapers, books and on the Web, I sell advertising. In 1993, when The Citizen first published, I was working for The Wall Street Journal in Buckhead as a circulation salesperson. I was overjoyed that Fayette County finally had a newspaper that I felt was worth reading, responding to and contributing to. To this end I contacted Dave Hamrick and wrote an article that he accepted. That was 1996.