When she’s not crushing on Ranger, Natasha Fondren keeps her fingers busy playing the roles of writer and pianist in Ohio. Thanks to Lula, she’s learning to look on the bright side, even when disasters strike.
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When she’s not crushing on Ranger, Natasha Fondren keeps her fingers busy playing the roles of writer and pianist in Ohio. Thanks to Lula, she’s learning to look on the bright side, even when disasters strike.
Gary Fong is a globally renowned photographer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is the father of “story-booking,” now the industry standard in wedding photography, in which candid shots are arranged in real time to tell a story, as opposed to the archaic method of taking posed, stilted shots. He is also the inventor of the Lightsphere®, a specially colored dome that is held in place over the flash unit of a camera. Before long, more than 200,000 units were sold worldwide, thus creating a multimillion-dollar plastics business. Since inventing the Lightsphere®, Fong has built a veritable cottage industry around variations on the popular product, including The Origami and The Puffer, all of which have become standard equipment used by most wedding photographers worldwide. He is considered one of the most influential photographers and inventors of his generation.
D. C. Fontana has credits as a writer on such diverse television series as “Star Trek,” “Bonanza,” “The Waltons,” “The Streets of San Francisco” and “Dallas.” She has served as story editor on the original “Star Trek” series, “Star Trek Animated,” “Fantastic Journey” and “Logan’s Run,” and as associate producer on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” She has experience in writing children’s shows, science fiction, westerns, action adventure, mysteries, daytime specials, animation and interactive games. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Romance Writers of America and the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators, as well as the Writers’ Guild of America, west, and Writers’ Guild of Canada.
Paul Fontana graduated from Colby College in 1996 with honors in philosophy. This essay was written while he was studying the New Testament at Harvard Divinity School. He currently lives in New York City.
James L. Ford is a professor of East Asian religions in the department of religion at Wake Forest University, N.C. He earned an M.A. in 1996 and Ph.D. in 1998 in East Asian religions from Princeton University. Dr. Ford’s primary research centers on medieval Japanese Buddhism and he recently completed a manuscript titled Boundless Devotion: Jokei (1155-1213) and the Discourse of Kamakura Buddhism. At present, he is executive secretary for the Society for the Study of Japanese Religion and serves on the steering committee for the Japanese Religions Group of the American Academy of Religion.
James W. Forsythe M.D., H.M.D., has long been considered one of the most respected physicians in the United States, particularly for his treatment of cancer and the legal use of human growth hormone. In the early 1960s, Dr. Forsythe graduated with honors from University California at Berkeley and earned his medical degree from University of California, San Francisco, before spending two years residency in Pathology at Tripler Army Hospital, Honolulu. After a tour of duty in Vietnam, he returned to San Francisco and completed an internal medicine residency and an oncology fellowship. He is also a world-renowned speaker and author. He has co-authored and written chapters in bestsellers, including An Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide to Cancer; KNOCKOUT: Interviews with Doctors who are Curing Cancer and BREAKTHROUGH, EIGHT STEPS TO WELLNESS (Suzanne Somers’ number one best sellers); The Ultimate Guide To Natural Health, Quick Reference A-Z Directory of Natural Remedies for Diseases and Ailments; Anit-Aging Cures; The Healing Power of Sleep; Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work and Alternative Medicine Guide 2 Women’s Health Series.
Dr. Michael Fossel earned both his PhD and MD from Stanford University, where he taught neurobiology and research methods. Winner of a National Science Foundation fellowship, he was a clinical professor of medicine for almost three decades, the executive director of the American Aging Association, and the founding editor of Rejuvenation Research.
In 1996, he wrote the first book on the telomerase theory of aging, Reversing Human Aging, describing the medical aspects of extending human telomeres, reversing aging, and curing age-related disease. In 2004, he authored the magisterial academic textbook, Cells, Aging, and Human Disease, and in 2011, he coauthored The Immortality Edge, a bestselling discussion of the potential for extending the human lifespan. He currently teaches The Biology of Aging at Grand Valley State University.
The world’s foremost expert on the clinical use of telomerase for age-related diseases, Michael has lectured at the National Institute for Health and the Smithsonian Institute, and continues to lecture at universities, institutes, and conferences throughout the world. He has appeared on Good Morning America, ABC 20/20, NBC Extra, Fox Network, CNN, BBC, Discovery Channel, and regularly on NPR. He is currently working to bring telomerase to human trials for Alzheimer’s disease.
Karen Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club, which has also been an Oprah Book Club book. She is also the author of Sister Noon (a PEN/Faulkner finalist), Sarah Canary, The Sweetheart Season and the story collection Black Glass. She lives in Davis, Calif.
Mark C Franek is an American sports writer, former attorney, and educator. Franek (JD and EdD) has published over 75 opinion-editorials on a variety of educational and human interest topics, and has taught writing pedagogy and sportswriting electives at the University of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson University, and Cabrini College. He currently teaches English classes and a series of electives, including a History of US Soccer course, at YSC Academy, an independent, college-preparatory school embedded completely within Major League Soccer’s Philadelphia Union franchise. The Academy, established in 2013 by Richie Graham, a minority owner of the Philadelphia Union, sits on a 15,000-square-foot campus adjacent to the stadium and integrates rigorous academics with professional-level soccer training. Franek also served as an English teacher and dean of students at the William Penn Charter (Quaker) School, one of the oldest independent schools in the nation. Over nearly three decades, Franek has had the privilege of teaching dozens of student-athletes who went on to play professional soccer in MLS and Europe. His former students include Olympic and World Cup players. Others, after hanging up their boots, graduated to become coaches, technical directors, and general managers of professional teams. Their DNA and dreams are in this book.
