People, Places and Events

About the Book

Martin Green is a retiree/free-lance writer living in Roseville, California. In 1991, the year after he retired, he started writing articles for a weekly alternative newspaper in Sacramento, Suttertown News.. In the same year, he began free-lancing for the Neighbors section of the Sacramento Bee, contributing over 100 articles until Neighbors was discontinued in 2002.. Since 2000, He’s been writing for a monthly newspaper, the Sun Senior News, which goes to over 10,000 households in two retirement communities, Sun City Roseville (where he lives) and Sun City Lincoln Hills. He currently does two monthly features, “Observations” and “Favorite Restaurants.”

This book is a collection of all, or almost all, of Martin’s journalistic pieces. It starts with his first story for Suttertown News, about how a water district was coping with a then years-long drought, and ends with a piece he wrote about his father for the Sun Senior News. The stories include profi les of people such as David Freeman, then head of SMUD; two notable writers in Davis, Kim Stanley Robinson and Karen Joy Fowler; a number of artists, musicians and other writers; many active senior citizens, and survivors of Pearl Harbor. They also cover places such as art galleries, restaurants, museums, coffee houses and swim and tennis clubs, and events such as the Elk Grove Strauss Festival, the Folsom rodeo and the first Saturday Night Art Walk.

In addition to his journalism, Martin has had over 200 short stories published in online magazines and has so far self-published three collections of these stories (2006, 2007 and 2008) as well as a longer work, “One Year in Retirement” (2009) and a collection of his “Observations” (2010). He has been married to Beverly (a water-color artist) for 46 years, has three sons (David, Michael and Christopher), three grandsons (Mason, Morgan and Logan), one granddaughter (Stephanie) and two cats (Bun-Bun and Shandyman).

About the Author

I retired as a Research Analyst fir the State of California at the end of 1990. The next year I started writing for an alternative weekly newspaper, the Suttertown News and also for the Neighbors section of the Sacramento Bee. In 1997 my wife Beverly and myself moved to a retirement community, Sun City Roseville, just outside of Sacramento, and in 2000 I started writing for a monthly newspaper, the Sun Senior News. I did over 50 stories for Suttertown News, over 100 for Neighbors and maybe a couple of dozen for Sun Senior News. (I still do two monthly columns, "Observations" and "Favorite Restaurants," for Sun Senior News). This year I decided to collect all of the journalistic pieces I've done, most of them on computer, some the originals I'd saved, into a book so that I and my family and whoever else might be interested would have a more permanent record of my journalism. This book is the result. Beverly and I celebrated our 45th anniversary last year. We have three sons, two living nearby and one in Ireland. We now also have two grandsons her, a grandson and a grandaughter in Ireland. We also have two cats. As mentioned above, I'm still doing journalism, my two columns. I've also had over 200 short stories published in online magazines and continue to write these. To date, I've self-published three collections of these stories, plus a longer work "One Year in Retirement" (a fictional memoir) and, last year, a collection of my "Observations" columns over ten years.