Neal Ross Attinson has worked at various times as a spa attendant, printer’s devil, printer, bookseller (new and used), bike messenger, hawker, deckhand/docent, broadcaster, radio dramatist, teacher, process server and newspaper reporter. (And that’s just what he’s been paid for.)
Neal’s news career began in 1995 at Santa Rosa radio station KSRO, and he has since earned professional accolades from the National Newspaper Association (Third Place, Best Breaking News Story of 2000; Second Place, Best News Feature of 2002), Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California (2001 James Madison Freedom of Information Award) and the Sonoma County Press Club (2001 Lincoln Steffens Investigative Reporting Award). He has also “appeared” on KOME and KSVY, and in j., The Forward and North Bay Bohemian. (Clips: http://metaphorager.net/about/.)
Neal’s current literary projects include Around The Rimless Sea: Mystic Fables for Religious Misfits and the “journalistic exploration of experiential holiness and snack bar,” Metaphorager.Net. (Rumors persist about his 1990s-era involvement with Matrix/Men In Black precursor Obscure Research Labs.)
A Para-Rabbinic Fellow since July 2000, Neal teaches B’nei Mitzvah students at Congregation Shir Shalom and leads an informal semi-monthly Torah study at the Sonoma home he shares with wife and inspiration Ann Clark. His freelance availability includes writing, speaking, teaching, officiating and anything monetizably else in his business card (see below; resume available on request).
Neal @ April 18, 2009