The boards of directors of United Airlines and US Airways gather to try to work out a merger. Nah, actually the photo is from a friend of mine who hikes in the mountains around Tucson. Normally, you don't encounter a mess-o-snakes like this. You can see the mouth of the rattlesnake den at left.
Joe Sharkey's work appears in major national and international publications. For 19 years until 2015 he was a weekly columnist for the New York Times. He is now a weekly travel and entertainment columnist with the global website Travel.Buzz, as well as an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Arizona, He has written five books, four non-fiction and a novel, one of which is in development as a movie. Previously, he was an assistant national editor at the Wall Street Journal and a reporter and columnist with the Philadelphia Inquirer.
On Sept. 29, 2006, he was one of seven people on a business jet who survived a mid-air collision with a 737 over the Amazon. All 154 on the 737 died. His report on the crash appeared on the front page of the New York Times and later in the Sunday Times of London magazine.
He and his wife Nancy (who is a professor of journalism at the University of Arizona) live in Tucson with horses and parrots. He is working on a new novel about an international travel writer who hates to travel.
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1 comment:
Joe:
How many times have I told you I don't like snakes or bugs - and then you do this to me?
That's why I can rationalize those 20 below zero days in Minneapolis knowing it is controlling the bugs and snakes.
Great pic - great blog as usual.
Terry Trippler
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