Bob is a freelance writer and conference speaker with nearly four decades of experience in the communications industry; beginning his career in 1969 at The Los Angeles Herald Examiner in Los Angeles, CA, where he also fervently pursued Hippiedom. Hey, it was the sixties!  He has worked at several newspapers throughout the country and has held nearly every position within the newspaper publishing business including, reporter, columnist, advertising account executive, and District Circulation Manager, as well as serving as publisher of his own tabloid that covered the New England region.Bob is nearing the completion of a non-fiction book, Be Not Dismayed: A Story of Spiritual Triumph.