About
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, in j. (and been written about both there and in The Forward) and the North Bay Bohemian. (Clips: http://metaphorager.net/clips/.) Current literary projects include Around The Rimless Sea: Mystic Fables for Religious Misfits; the science-fiction adventure Under Oasine; and the “journalistic exploration of experiential holiness and snack bar,” Metaphorager.Net. (Rumors also persist about a 1990s-era involvement with creative-genius farm and 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 a twice-monthly living-room Torah study in the Sonoma apartment he shares with wife and inspiration Ann Clark. Neal’s freelance availability includes writing; speaking and teaching on such topics as Judaism, science fiction and newswriting; and officiating at weddings, funerals, celebrations and important moments. (All genders, ethnicities and secularities welcomed.)
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