Why write?
This blog exists not because I am uniquely gifted or talented, or because I necessarily have something new to say about a topic of interest. Instead, I’m writing for, more or less, two reasons: I want a place to fully articulate my own thoughts to myself, and I want a place where people can see that it’s just fine to have a plethora of interests.
The style of this blog and newsletter will be informal - probably terribly so. It will be informal, circuitous, and will cover a wide range of interests. Some posts will come hot and heavy, one after another. Other times it’ll be like rain in the desert, infrequent and sporadic. Some posts will be long, some short. The editing will be minimal; rather, there will be editing but I will not be overly concerned with making it fit a certain rule, or kept under a certain word count, or look a certain way.
Consider it, really, as marginalia. Like the chicken-scratch notes you see in the margins of a page; a sentence or two underlines with an asterisk by it; the notecard you find wedged in a used book scribbled with the reader's thoughts and feelings. Marginalia in its purest sense.
What I want is to write, to write clearly, and to make an idea easily understood. Maybe you won’t love a topic that I love, or I’ll write about a topic (as you see it) wrong. But, I am writing. And you are reading. This is a conversation.
Who are you?
I’m a lifelong writer who happens to do other things. While I am a trained academic, I consider myself non-practicing. I received my B.A. in History (with a minor in Philosophy) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. I worked for the student newspaper (the Sun Star), before branching out to write for some public relations-adjacent publications. I even won a few awards. Since then I have been employed, in various capacities, by the Downtown Association of Fairbanks since 2013 - a splendid little 501c3 in Fairbanks, AK.
In addition to writing, I like to hike and drink wine. I have a love/hate thing with baseball - love the game, hate the financial side of things. I am also married to my very best friend.
I currently reside in the American Southwest.
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It’s all here, or will be here, for the reading: history; desert flora and the American southwest; religion, mysticism, the esoteric and weird, and philosophy; a book I’ve just finished reading, be it fiction or nonfiction; baseball and other sports I find weirdly engaging; academia and education; the role of technology in our lives; some weird current event that’s been bugging me; that walk I just took; a cool rock I found…you probably get the picture.
Are these section headers getting smaller?
Yes! Good catch.
Is it intentional?
Absolutely. We have fun here.
