Wolfgang Emde:  

Life After Forest Heights, I briefly worked with mainframe computers before going to school at U of Penn. in Philadelphia. A bad motorcycle wreck in Ohio sidelined me there for a year 71-72, and I then opted to finish my University degree at Whittier College outside of LA in California. My Masters was at Cal State LA in Journalism, and for about 7 years I lived in Newport Beach and worked as a stringer for several magazines and dailies. Several writing trips to Europe, a number of failed relationships and two almost marriages later, I wound up living in Dana Point, a harbor town about 75 miles south of LA. When not in school or working, I did a lot of sailing, mostly to Catalina or the Channel Islands, or down to Mexican ports like Ensenada or Cabo San Lucas and skiing the local mountains. The High Sierras and the Utah badlands are also close enough to get to easily for skiing, camping, rafting and mountainbiking. I went back to college to get my nursing degree and wound up working ER in a very busy trauma center in Orange County for about 10 years. Another almost marriage. Then in 1991, I decided to move up to Santa Monica (where I live now) and go to school and work at UCLA. I work in the Neuro-Trauma ICU as an RN and also participate in the many research projects that are going on there at any given time. Writing is still a passion for me...Expand for more