What do you do for a living?
Editor of the Register-Pajaronian in Watsonville.
What would you be doing if you weren’t doing that?
Writing, reporting and educating the public on crucial matters in some
other way.
What do you do in your free time?
Read American history, spend time with my wife and children.
What brought you to Santa Cruz?
I moved here in November of 2000 to work at the Register-Pajaronian. I
had applied, through the California Newspaper Publishers Association,
for an editor’s job in the Sierra foothills, but somehow my resume
wound up in Watsonville. I had never heard of the town when the paper
called to ask to interview me.
What’s your favorite street?
Freedom Boulevard. It starts in Watsonville at one of my favorite
places to eat for lunch, goes right through the town and out past
beautiful apple fields and patches of forest. It’s a pretty road to
follow.
Name something you’re excited about.
I get excited about a lot of things, but not always in a positive way.
Watching my children grow older and develop deeper thought and
understanding about the world around them is exciting for me in a
positive way.
Name a pet peeve.
Dishonesty, especially in government.
What are you reading?
Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the
American Founding
What’s the most important thing you’ve learned in the last three
years?
It has really struck me lately just how far off the history is that is
taught in our public schools. As children, we are fed this whole story
about Columbus, the Pilgrims, the American colonies and so on, and
most of it has been sanitized and changed so much that people have
many wrong impressions and beliefs. How many people realize that the
slave plantations were established on the North American continent
well before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock? I would guess not
many.
Recent personal food trend?
The price for avocados seems to have dropped and I’ve been taking
advantage of it.
