1986 In 1985 was hired at the Journal- Star to do modern dance reviews, a job nobody wanted to do. L. Kent Walgamott was instrumental in getting me hired. I did mostly dance, opera and theatre while I was there. And a piece on Bob Dylan. Tom Barker, then program director of rock radio station KFMQ (where I worked) arranged for  tickets to the show. I called them ”my last great gift from radio.” It capped my 10 year career at the Q.  L. Kent arranged for the articles publication.  I never would have done anything if it warn’t for the people along the way that helped get there. It was a dream show. Shortly afterwards I left Lincoln for Boulder Colorado to work on my masters degree in Psychology at the (then) Naropa Institute. Meditation, performance art and poetry and dance. My life exploded with art and spirituality.

Interviews and Reviews 1979 The evening I spent with Richard Brautigan was by far the most important encounter of my life as a journalist and writer. Most of the evening was off the record. We went drinking at a local bar. I’d never seen anyone drink like that before.  He downed tumbler after tumbler of Jack Daniels and never got drunk.  He said he had an expense account with his publisher that paid for them. I had to leave at midnight to go to the radio station where I worked for my midnight show. Brautigan asked if he could go along. I thought he’d go on the air. But he did not want to. We just played music and talked. He spent half the night down at the studio.  He sensed I needed something as a novelist, and gave me the best advice of my life. He said “Any success in the market place is luck. If you’re not enjoying what you’re doing, don’t do it.” I’ll never forget him.