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Bill Hudson, Publisher, Writer, Photographer, Editor, Videographer, Former Vegetarian
Post founder and publisher Bill Hudson had his first newspaper story printed at age 5, when the
Concord, CA Thrifty Nickel printed his original fiction piece, "Mr. Fuddledeeduddle and the Q-Bobber."
Following that success, he took a 28-year sabbatical from newspaper writing, before co-founding The Juneau What,
a humor newspaper in Juneau, Alaska, which featured completely fictional news.
19 years later, he started the Pagosa Daily Post as his first attempt to publish non-fiction news. Unfortunately, many readers of the Post
have difficulty believing that certain events reported on this daily news web site are actually true. Perhaps this
experience is intended to teach Bill that, as the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction.
Bill and his wife Clarissa also operate the web design, web hosting and graphic design business, Hudson Hudson Ltd. In their spare time,
they eagerly discuss Bill's many shortcomings.
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Glenn Walsh, Writer, Photographer, Editor, Videographer, Coffee Technician
Glenn Walsh came to Pagosa Country in the wake of his talented ex-wife,
who was seeking a more meaningful life, in a more beautiful state, with
a more appropriate husband. Glenn is far younger than his irregular dentition
and oversized gray beard imply. Glenn has been talking to himself for
many years, though his articles for the Post are his first attempts at
rendering these conversations with himself into print.
When not craftily avoiding his many creditors or engaged in Google searches for early photos
of Anita Ekberg, Glenn focuses on the financial crisis in the Archuleta County Courthouse
and the general decline of public mores. He lives with his wife Margaret
along the San Juan River in downtown Pagosa Springs, with one daughter
they love dearly and five sons they at times publicly declare as their
own.
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Clarissa Hudson, Business Manager, Writer, Photographer, Sanitation Specialist
After returning from a 6-month residency in her homeland of Alaska
in September, 2007, Clarissa began working part-time as the Post’s
business and office manager. She is more widely known, however, as a fiber
and collage artist, painter, and teacher, specializing in designing and
creating Alaska Native ceremonial regalia; visit her extensive website at
www.clarissahudson.com.
She and her husband Bill have collaborated on various public art installations
and projects including sculptures, carvings and theatre productions; view
examples at hudsonhudson.com
and artstream.net
Clarissa and Bill have three children: Kahlil, a film-maker/cinematographer
at kahlilhudson.com;
Lily, an actress/storyteller at lilyhudson.com;
and Ursala, a graphic artist/web-designer/painter at whiterabbitstudio.us.
Although Clarissa is 'plural', there is really only one of her. She has
often said, "Every woman needs a wife." As she is now middle-aged,
however, she really needs a couple of 'mid'-wives — one to tend
to the past, one to harness the future, while she continues to handle
the present.
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Cyndi Mitchell, Writer, Sales Associate, Poet, Assistant Editor, Young at Heart Old Hippie Tree Hugger
Cyndi has lived in this beautiful paradise for 13 years. Back in the early days, she wrote for the short-lived Pagosa monthly,
Connections Magazine.
She also had a previous career in Respiratory Therapy and Nutrition,
but now prefers quiet devotion to hiking, gardening and full-time writing, while enjoying the splendor of Pagosa. She wants
to somehow (in uncertain terms) help Pagosa remain an unpaved paradise — if well enough is left alone!
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Susan E. Little, Writer, Sales Associate, Assistant Editor, Missionary
Susan is a former educator with the unique distinction of teaching every grade Pre-Kindergarten through college. She continues to learn from the
wonderful variety of people in Pagosa Springs. An outdoor enthusiast and adventurer, she is thankful to escape the city life
and constantly amazed at the beauty around her.
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Roy Torres, Writer, Sales Associate, Assistant Editor, Chief Translator
Roy Torres is a former newspaper reporter, in a previous life, with the Irving Daily News and Corpus Christi Caller - Times newspapers.
He has been a radio and television host as well. The majority of his career was spent in school administration
where he was a school principal in an elementary, middle and high school. He retired from the Texas school system where
he was assistant superintendent. He helped turn around a troubled Houston high school which Geraldo Rivera called
"one of America's worst high schools." Six years after Rivera's expose — and after Torres became the school's principal —
the school became an exemplary school as rated by the Texas Education Agency.
Torres is an avid outdoorsman.
He enjoys hunting, fishing, and cattle roundups, among other things.
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Christina Knoell, Bookkeeper, Child Care Attendant & Referee
Christina was brought to Pagosa Springs by AmeriCorps, just after returning
from the Philippines with the U.S. Peace Corps. She was going through some
culture shock, acquired from living and traveling in SE Asia for 2 years.
Pagosa Springs was just the town she needed to get acclimated to the good
ol' USA again. Filipino time is just like Pagosa time; Filipinos point with
their lips just like some Native peoples in the Four Corners.
Christina's original intentions were to fulfill a one-year contract in Pagosa
Springs, working for an affordable housing group, and then she would pursue
her dream to go to graduate school somewhere in the Northwest. She quickly
fell in love, found herself knocked up, married and then knocked up again.
She has been married for 6 years and has 2 daughters and 1 step-daughter.
Nine years later, she is still living in Pagosa Springs, trying to make her
corner of the earth a little better.
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Ellen Wadley, Assistant Editor, Web Technician, Refreshments Supervisor
Born in Chicago, Ellen moved to Pagosa Springs in 2000 with her husband, Steve,
after retiring from the Albuquerque DA's office as a violent crimes investigator,
vehicular homicide specialist and accident re-constructionist. She was simultaneously a deputy
for the New Mexico Medical Investigator's Office and now serves as deputy to
Archuleta County Coroner Carl Macht. Pagosa life includes Dog Mom, Chimney Rock publicist and
designer of numerous Pagosa non-profit web sites.
Ellen agreed to move to Pagosa Springs over the phone
and hasn't answered it since.
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Kimberly Carroll, Writer, Assistant Editor, Photographer, Poet, Mushroom Hunter
Kimberly has had her poetry published in small publications no one has ever heard of. She also wrote for and edited
two business publications that were rarely read in their perspective industries. Therefore she feels very qualified to
work for the Post.
Kimberly recently returned to her beloved Colorado after a four-year stint in California where she became
painfully aware of just how much of a Mountain Woman she really is. Her friends and family are at a loss
to understand how she could embody the LA style of driving yet embrace the tranquility of nature.
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