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Writing:

• Bandon Rains  << click here))
• Back from the summer.   I enjoyed writing over the summer, as it gave me an outlet to clarify my thinking.    Here I am again doing it.

• Summer 2021.  Vagrancy Revisited  << click here))
• Back in my teens and 20s, I wandered a lot, just letting each day come at me new.  I travelled the country hitchhiking, each day an adventure.  I wouldn't care where I slept at night.  In a backyard.  On a picnic table in a park somewhere in some strange town.   Under a highway bridge.  I was young and always felt that I would be ok, that even if a policeman stopped me, my exhuberance and my youthful innocence would have him just let me go.  It always worked.
• I lived with that confidence in my years in London UK as well, always thinking that I would always be ok.
• Now at 65 I rent my house for the summer, take off in my car from Bandon, head east and south, and give it another whirl, performing an existential experiment of compare/contrast, to see how much time has passed, and how much I have changed from my carefree and confident youth of 40 years ago.

• A CoronaVirus Journal  << click here))
• When I first moved to Bandon, I didn't know anybody, so would spend entire days alone.  Knowing it would be this way initially, I intentionally bought a house that needed a lot of work and spent most of my days working on it.  Slowly I built up a life around me.  
• Now as the coronavirus takes over the planet and we are all ordered to shelter in place, I am back to a mostly solitary existence, and so must fall back on old habits.   Daily projects.    This Journal is one of them.

• Exit Salad  << click here))
• I think this was started as a free form writing blog for me back when my kids were in school and writing essays and stories.    Lots of varied stuff in there.

• An Interesting Walk << click here))
• The summer that Michelle and Mara went off to see colleges, Jana and I had some time on our hands and I asked her if she wanted to go on a bike trip or a walking trip and she chose walking, so we decided to walk up El Camino Real from Santa Clara to San Francisco.  50 miles in 4 days.   I experienced the luxury of having 4 full days with one of my kids.   Our feet were sore every day, but I loved it.

• Buried Country << click here))
• At one point in 2011 or so I bought a really expensive bicycle (for me) at 2800 dollars.   I needed a way to feel it was worth it, so I needed to put on some miles.  A lot of miles.    I decided to take a "virtual" bike trip across the country, starting at the Boston Public Library, where Michelle and I first met, and ending at our house in Santa Clara. 
• Every day I would go out for a ride and log in 20 or 30 miles, I would tag that on to the length of the "virtual" trip.   And then to make it interesting for myself, I would look up whatever town I was virtually in, and look at its history, then write about it.  
• This is the journal from that trip.

• So Far << click here))
• I had read somewhere that kids never remembered anything before they were 3 years old.   This was astonishing to me because both my kids were under 3 at the time, and I had literally put in tens of thousands of hours already to raise them, and I realized that after all that work if I got hit by a bus, that Michelle would never have an interest in telling my kids anything about me beyond my name and maybe some additional detail convenient for her to tell them that mostly would relate in the way that I was useful to her here and there.
• I decided that if I was going to get hit by a bus, then I should write down in my own words how I got there.   This is the result.

Radio:

• KBOG.  44 shows.  The Last Reel << click here))
• KBOG is a local radio station in Bandon, which to date has never quite fully gotten off the ground as intended.   Instead they were using a local streaming syndicate called "Global Community Radio" (GCR) out of NY to provide a local broadcast.  
• I ended up contacting GCR on my own and offering my show "The Last Reel" and they accepted my offer, I think because its music pulled from the background of movies and games.  Kind of ambient, but really cool.   
• It is now been over a year (as of March 2020) and still airing once a week on their syndicate, which goes out to handful of stations across the country.

Video:

• YouTube Channel << click here))
• I have ended up being a "techie" for a lot of stuff up here in Bandon, which includes video work for people up here.   The schools, the movie theatre, some creative musical people in town.
• I am given a somewhat free hand in a lot of what I do, so the videos on the channel are are a result of some of that work.