Author: Phil Drake

Phil Drake has spent most of his working life as an editor and reporter at several newspapers and wire services in Southern California, Ohio and Montana. Please don’t say he is a journalist, because that sounds fancier than it really is. And despite all that experience, he has never won an award. He is a graduate of Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, and grew up in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. He also spent some time in Iowa, where he worked in the meat department of a grocery store and for an electronic surveillance company. Please don’t say he was a butcher, because that sounds fancier than it really was. Drake now lives in Montana with his dog, Pica, who serves as the brains of the outfi t. They are both honorary Chubolians.