I grew up on the East Side of Bridgeport, Connecticut, attended Edison and Hall elementary schools, and graduated from Warren Harding High School.
I have a B.A. in English, with a concentration in journalism and a minor in psychology, from Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven.
It took me a while to realize that I was destined for a career in publishing. When I was a kid, a friend and I started a “newspaper” for our neighborhood. I remember reproducing it on a mimeograph machine. Then I worked on my high school newspaper.
But it wasn’t until I took a journalism class in college that I really thought of it as my potential career.
I’ve lived in various places around Fairfield County, Connecticut; then in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia from 1999-2005, and in the Pacific Beach area of San Diego since 2006.
My significant other and I have been together for 30 years. We got married on 10/16/2024, so now she’s Liz Walker!
Our spare time revolves around our dog Cashew and volunteering in our community, including the PBTC. I belong to the Kiwanis Club of Pacific Beach. Liz is very into rowing and recently put up a new website for the Pacific Beach American Legion Post 552. I’m playing a lot of pickleball.
We enjoy mid-century modern architecture, word games of The New York Times, mixology, and spending time in the desert town of Borrego Springs, where we recently purchased a small condo. We love hiking in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
I’ve been a NY Yankee fan since 1966. That terrible year, the Yankees compiled a 70-89 record and finished last in the American League, 26 1/2 games out of first place.