I've been blogging since before it was called blogging. My first site went up in September 2000, and I've written for a variety of sites since then. I do political writing under the name California Mike on <a href="http://www.allvoices.com">All Voices</a> and the writing I do here is a little bit different. I'm trying to look at the issues that regular folks deal with on a daily basis in the first decade of the 21st century.

If I'm lucky, I can make you laugh, make you cry, touch your heart or maybe tell you something you didn't already know.

Me, I'm a retired journalist who loves his wife more than anything in the world. I've got two great kids and an amazing grandchild.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

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