Anchor Struck

I’ve been blogging for 14 years. I’m not in it for the gold, glamour or groupies. I’ve been writing since junior high, when I got a satirical piece in the school newspaper exposing Santa Claus for exploiting his elf workers. That was enough to encourage me to go to Hollywood 30 years later to pursue a screenwriting career.

I learned straightaway that any talent one might actually have takes a distant third to connections and relentless self-promotion if one wishes to succeed. Still, I loved the beaches and balmy weather, so I stayed until my second wife lured me back to Kansas.

She’s there yet and I’m in a forest in Canada with the love of my life. This blog centers on the incredible life Jude and I have created up here. It’s primarily an account of our attempts to reduce our carbon footprint, intertwined with the joys and sorrows of self-consciousness.

Whenever I blog, I check on how many viewers I’ve had recently. Until this month it was usually in the single digits, and I could name all of those digits. May 2nd, however, I catapulted into double stats — a staggering 14 folks dropped in. It has continued to climb, logging a blog record 65 Monday.

So, thank you for dropping by. I encourage you to check out the tabs at the top of the page to learn more about the blog. Conversely, I would like to know how you learned of the blog. You can stay anonymous by commenting at the bottom the post. Don’t worry. I won’t try to sell you Amway.