jack salt (@saltmanjack)
A man of knavish reputation, apocryphal credentials, inconsequential means, and low-born acquaintances:
I worked indoor jobs (editorial, teaching) until I was 26. Got real bored, and it sure didn´t suit my self-image as a writer, to be always shut up inside. What's a guy spozed to get excited about, living a quadrated life?? So I wandered for 10 years (the western States, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala,), trying on new experiences for size: ranch hand, farm laborer, gardener, janitor, small-town news reporter, consultant for tribal clinic, martial arts instructor, stuntman in production company, movie extra. In addition to convincingly speaking a watered-down,