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Karen and Bill began collaborating on projects in the late 1980s. Bill owned and operated Buffalo Bill's BrewPub in Hayward California, and Karen was an art student, studying graphic design at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. Together they created more than a dozen eccentric beer labels for beer brewed in the pub. In November of 2019, they teamed up again, to combine Bill's original poems and Karen's linocut illustrations.Bill's life trajectory has followed a fascinating mix of interests that he has zealously pursued. After returning from the Peace Corps, he and his wife Janet enrolled at SF State. Bill's interest in photography lead him to documenting campus protests and demonstrations for the college's newspaper, \ San Francisco Gator\Eventually, he landed a job at the Livermore Independent as the newspaper's photographer. He and Janet moved to Livermore and started a family. Hired by the AP to shoot the Rolling Stones concert at Altamont in 1969, Bill captured images of the concert and Hells Angels beating people with pool cues. With a grant from the City of Livermore, he began photographing his neighbors' lives in the '70s, and published his documentary photo book \Fellowship in 1976. He also received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. His photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, having found their way into the permanent collections of many institutions, from San Francisco to New York and Paris. In 1983 he established one of the first brewpubs in the country, and in 2003 founded the American Distilling Institute, a trade association for craft distillers. He is a world traveler, reveler, and continues to work on book projects, including a dystopian novel, \