I thought that all newspaper reporters were run down by Harley-riding former National Football League coaches who then declare on network television, “I've always wanted to kill a sports writer,” as I was by former Atlanta Falcons Coach Jerry Glanville. Hasn't another reporter watched fire fighters gut his smoldering automobile while Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig stared along in disbelief?

Frozen between floors, I was trapped in an elevator with Muhammad Ali and Don King. I hung out with members of the Grateful Dead. This was my life and now I hope to share those experiences in books -- some in memoir form, others through fiction and still others in children's stories.

I declined to shake Richard Nixon's hand, argued with Miss America and scolded a United States senator before storming out of his house.