Gil Zimmerman:  

I don't think I could have ever imagined the variety of experiences life would toss my way...certainly not in the waning years of the sixties decade that moulded so much of our generation. There are a dozen chapters of my book that are nothing like the last few. Life before Paris was so different, unique, adventuresome, diverse, a literal world away from where today takes me, almost as if the intervening years are just a distant memory. I stumbled on this site late at night, far from home on a regular business trip with little to do except cruise through the channels on the hotel TV. As a few others have noted, it is 'just curiosity' that draws us. The short story of my journey is kind of diverse: broadcast news (a writer, producer and traveling remote crew), two television production companies (underwater innovations, helicopters, movies, commercials, fortunes made and lost, traveled a lot), peddling arms and things that make lots of noise (not body parts but dangerous toys for big boys, explosives, funding third-word turmoil), teaching police and then police work (driving a cruiser in a very small town), detective work (the private kind, at times just like the movies but often much more boring but it's how I met my wife, a French PI) and now developer of ideas, systems and processes for a very large company who lets me call my shots, set my schedule and travel around figuring out how to innovate to fuel growth. Having met and married Nadia, a very smart, talented, ...Expand for more