George Garrigues has a bachelor of arts degree in government from University of California, Riverside, and a master of arts in journalism from UCLA.His academic teaching and administrative positions have been at the University of Southern California, Western Washington State College, University of the Pacific, Wayne State University, University of Bridgeport, and Lincoln University of Missouri.He has written or edited for the Los Angeles Times, The Record of Bergen County, Wave Publications of Los Angeles and other newspapers. He spent a sabbatical year volunteering for Global Information Network in New York City. He went bankrupt trying to run a weekly newspaper in Oregon.Garrigues has been a public information officer for the State of California, the County of Los Angeles, and the International Labor Office in Geneva, Switzerland.At the age of thirteen he tossed the San Francisco News onto customers' front steps west and south of Buena Vista Park and sold copies to arriving streetcar passengers on the southwest corner of Haight Street and Masonic Avenue.In high school he set type by hand in a composing stick.In the 1950s, he was a teenage copyboy on the San Francisco Examiner (which still had spittoons near the doorways and an old telegrapher getting race results via Morse code from the tracks). A college student in that decade, he got printer's ink on the cuffs of the white dress shirts he affected at the time.Some of it must have soaked into his blood. Lisa Gale Garrigues is a writer, editor, and media maker.