Ken Jackson is a retired lawyer. He grew up in Alabama in the 1960s. After taking English literature and law degrees there, he worked in New York for a few years before he moved to Hong Kong. For 20 years in Hong Kong, he worked and traveled throughout Asia. Outside his legal work, he also wrote travel and history articles, and some poetry. He has had more than 50 articles published in Asia, the United States and England. He now lives in San Diego, California, and usually visits Asia every year. He still writes, studies Spanish and wanders around Mexico and the American Southwest. [The Other Side]