Martin Burch:  

Life After high school graduation and hopping through junior colleges and Trinity University, I basically flunked out of school and enlisted in the Navy. I spent my tour on Guam, where I was employed in a number of extra-curricular enterprises. Leaving Guam, I wanted to spend my post-enlistment unemployment benefits as a beach bum, so I took a chance and moved with guitar and duffle bag to the US Caribbean territory, the US Virgin Islands. As luck and fate often do in such interventions, I got a job my second day on St. Thomas and went to work as a journalist. I spent almost two years there, but got my first career. I returned to Texas and got my BA at SFA in Nacogdoches. The next decade or so I worked at a variety of newspapers and magazines, covering diverse beats such as the Persian Gulf nations, the west side of Houston, the western Pacific island nations, and Texas banks. After taking a break to get an MA from UT Austin, I wound up in ...Expand for more