I've been a newspaper reporter and editor for several newspapers in Florida, Nevada,and California as well as written freelance articles for numerous newspapers and magazines (Jewish Journal, Boca Raton News, Jewish Reporter, The Desert Trail, HiDesert Star, Monterey County Weekly, Reno Gazette Journal and worked for The Pompano Ledger, Stars and Stripes and other newspapers).
I’ve also been editor of numerous newsletters (Citizen Alert, Freedom Collaborative, Head Start, EarthSave, Main Gorman, Jackpot Enterprises, and Sequoia Vision) and my articles and poems have been published and featured in many newspapers and magazines in California, Florida, Nevada, NY, Georgia, and all over the USA, including USA Today, O magazine, InStyle, Parents, Weekend Entrepreneur and Vox Media and online in many blogs including my Have Dog Blog Will Travel blog that I wrote for 13 years.
These are just a few of the links and images of the articles (and poems) I’ve written and had published.
A more complete list of my clips, writing samples
Florida, Nevada, Oregon, Washington Media and More
Auburn Journal, Antique Fair and Auburn gearing up for festival
Carmel Pine Cone
Just Someone Who Cares
Cedar Street Times, Page 8
Contra Costa Times
East Bay Express
Hi-Desert Star
Jewish Journal
Los Angeles Times
Marin Independent Journal
Monterey Herald
Sit Lies
The City Council in Monterey recently banned people from sitting or lying down in public (“Monterey City Council approves sit/lie ordinance 4-1; Haffa dissents,” posted July 2). Criminalizing homeless people is a twofer: provides the private prison system with new inmates and it’s profitable. So, it costs taxpayers more money, you wreck what’s left of people’s lives, and are profiting off the misery of people who have lost everything. Homeless people are citizens, someone’s uncle, cousin or wife, and their rights are being trampled upon, but greed is good, right?
It’s hard enough being homeless, but adding an arrest record makes it worse. Meanwhile, Utah has reduced homelessness by 74 percent by giving people homes. Austin, Texas and other cities have built tiny home villages for homeless people, saving taxpayers millions of dollars. One church in North Dakota is building apartments for homeless people to live in, with or without the city’s approval.
And a recent editorial in The New York Times on shunting the homeless from sight reads, “They [local governments] have an interest in not having poor people be very visible… for all the tough new laws, the homeless are still present. Local governments must face this fact with something better than punitive denial.”
Walk a mile in their shoes, Monterey City Council. Celia Sue Hecht | Seaside
I’d like to teach the world to sing
In perfect poetry
Instead I find myself playing
Hashtag games on Twitter
Why?
Because games, poetry and sleep
Keep me sane during this time
Of smoky air, fires, pandemic, and
Political insanity
Would you like to sing me a silly love poem?
Or play a hashtag game on twitter?
#ReasonsToPlayHashtagGames
#When Hairy Met Soily
#Sockless in Seattle
#When Devil Wore Nada
#VoteAndHope
They’re Coming to take my berries away
Bye Bye Miss Strawberry Pie
Drove my Berries to the ferries
but the berries got dry
them good ole boys poured whiskey and rye
Singin’ this’ll be the way blueberries die
#WorkHasMeAllLike
Bottle of whine fruit of the yawn
#AddFishToAFilmOrSong
Marlin Has Broken, like the first Marlin
What if cod was one of us?
When you fish upon a star.
Mercury News
Napa News
O Magazine (Oprah)
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Gate
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Solimar Magazine, SoulfulLiving
Tahoe Tribune
The Daily Breeze
The Desert Sun
The Desert Trail, 29 Palms
(Newspaper Reporter and Photographer for weekly newspaper)
Some Food For Thought About Weight
Medicine for the Soul Hits the Spot
Healthy Wealthy nWise
"All cultures have produced authentic healers from time to time, individuals who have the ability to call forth and energize the natural healing tendencies present within everyone. Dr Zhi Gang Sha is such a healer "a man of deep wisdom and compassion, and a gift to the human race."
– Dr. Larry Dossey, author of Healing Words, Reinventing Medicine, and Healing Beyond the Body .
Soulful Living Online
Bringing Heart and Soul to Work
Info, articles, quotes and interviews compiled from numerous sources for this newsletter including Dr. Naomi Wolf, Dr. Mercola, Dr. Pamela Popper, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr (Children’s Health Defense), Peggy Hall (The Healthy American), Jon Rappoport, author of AIDS Inc, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum, Dr. Steven Baker, Dr. Paul Saladino, Dr. Simone Gold, Dr. Steven Greer, Dr. Michael Yeadon (former VP of Pfizer), Oracle Films, Organic Consumers Association, Sharyl Attkisson, Alex Berenson (former New York Times reporter), Jeremy Hammond, Celia Farber, Whitney Webb, Kyle Young, Mathew Crawford, Tessa Lena, numerous worldwide lawyers including Reiner Fuellmich and scientists, VRevealed, USA and worldwide freedom groups and organizations, Bill Gates, CDC, FDA, WHO, Pfizer, Moderna, singers, actors, celebrities, Russell Brand, Bill Maher, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Caroline Criado Perez (Invisible Women), mainstream media, and more.
Magazines
Bay Woof
Asilomar Coastal Trail
Carmel by the Sea Has Gone to the Dogs
Top 12 Dog Friendly Things To Do in Mendocino
NorthBay Biz
Wrote about the Future of Alternative Medicine and my spa day experience at Osmosis in Forestville, CA
Articles from my Have Dog Blog Will Travel Blog
My dog blog is #5 on this list, still in the top 5 after all these years https://www.dogcollarzone.com/best-dog-blogs/
Reviewed 85+ Inns, B&B’s, Lodges, mostly in California (from Ahwanee to Yosemite)
Strawberry Creek Inn, Ritz Carleton Half Moon Bay, The Islands Hotel in Newport Beach, Hotel Solamar, Omni Hotel, Hilton Waterfront, Stanford Inn, MacCallum House, Little River Inn, Andiron Inn, Napa River Inn, Beazley House, Carmel River Inn, Hofsas House, Portola Hotel, Mariposa Suites, Bardessono, Fleur du Lac, Santa Nella House, Casa Cody Inn, Luxe Hotel, Eagle’s Nest B&B, Quiet Creek Inn, Casa Carolina, The Victorian Inn, Stevenswood Spa, The Farmhouse, Union Hill Inn, Cambria Pines Lodge, Blue Whale Inn, Cottages at Little River, Schoolhouse Inn, Howard’s Creek Ranch, Carmel Edgewater Inn, Shambalah and others.
In California, some of the places we traveled to and wrote about included Ahwanee, Bodega Bay, Calistoga, Cambria, Carmel, Crescent City, Eureka, Garberville, Guerneville, Half Moon Bay, Healdsburg, Huntington Beach, Idyllwild, Indio, Irvine, Jenner, Lake Oroville, Mendocino, Menlo Park, Monterey, Napa, Nevada City, Newport Beach, Orick, Pacific Grove, Palm Springs, Paso Robles, Philo, Rutherford, San Diego, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol and Sonora, CA