Carol Blackman

Visit Carol online and read about San Francisco in the late 1960s at www.moretosayfromsf.com.

Nonfiction book author and newspaper journalist Carol Blackman is a proud native San Franciscan. She has been collecting the "betcha didn't know" stories about her home town from the late 1960s. Her new book, Truth and Love: Finding the Soul of the Sixties, will be published in 2016!

As City kids describe themselves, Carol was "born and raised" in San Francisco. While the world saw just one view of the City with the "Summer of Love," she knows there were lots of people doing more than becoming Hippies and dancing in Golden Gate Park. She introduces readers to the unique characters and social innovators who tell their stories about that tumultuous time in the City.

Carol writes an entertaining weekly email postcard, connecting events in the City today with what was happening in the 1960s. Folks can sign-up on the Home Page of www.moretosayfromsf.com for her private, not-to-be-shared email list.

For a writing seminar, Carol needed to compose a selection of random biographical statements. Here are some of those facts:

1. When Carol was writing about fashion for a daily newspaper, she had to appear on a local television show with designer Arnold Scassi. He was so frightened of the TV camera that he held her hand through the entire interview.

2. In the late 1990s, she worked in Silicon Valley. Carol helped to create a Web site trade newspaper about computer security - talking to computer hackers one day and the FBI the next day - before anyone knew what a "firewall" meant.

3. With a MA in educational psychology, Carol researched and wrote a report for the Health and Human Services Department of the federal government about "Mentoring Children of Prisoners."

4. Carol interviewed a member of the Scottish Parliament on the floor of the Scottish Parliament.

5. When she wrote Life is a Stretch, a book about putting yoga stretches into daily-routines, Carol admitted that she is a regular yoga class drop-out. She promised readers they would not have to learn to put their legs behind their heads!