My first year at Mira Mesa High School I made friends with Mark Holland.  He was a newspaper carrier and he recruited me into the business.  My first official job was delivering newspapers for The San Diego Union.  Each day I’d get up around 4am to put rubber bands around each paper, load the papers into a basket on the front of my bike as well as saddle bags on my back bike rack.  Then I’d peddle around the neighborhood and try to toss each paper onto my customer’s porches.  When I had time I’d read my copy of the newspaper.  I never expected to see myself on the front…