Why I Don’t Blog More
This blog, truth be known, is my legacy. Like Roy Batty, (robotty?), in Blade Runner, during the infamous tears in the rain rooftop scene, I know what it’s like to let experience slip away into nothingness. And yet, one...
A Blogging Apology
If anyone read last weeks post and thought I was rambling… oh, you didn’t read it? That’s right, I posted it privately, back-dating the post so that nobody would read it unless it was found later by someone scrolling...
Randomly Thinking about Napoleon
You know when you’re sitting out in the desert, thinking about Napoleon and how similar today’s situation is to the Enlightenment? Maybe not, I seem to be the only one out here… During the Enlightenment, where maintaining state power...
Content Diversity
First off I wanted to apologize the audience of Cleanshave.org, if one exists, and to the search engine algorithms that attempt to categorize this blog. Sure, it’s a hiking blog, a low budget travel blog, but like most people,...
Finding Myself in the Wayback Machine
For those of you who don’t know, the Wayback Machine is a sort of internet archive that keeps records of the World Wide Web, and which is named after the WABAC machine, pronounced, “way back,” used by Mr. Peabody...
Thru Hiking Saved My Life
I’m trying to add content to my new blog, not an easy task when working from your cell phone, and I am amazed at all the depressing things I’ve written over the years. This journal entry for instance, hidden...
The Danger of Building a Website from your Cell Phone
As a few of you might know, I have been building out Cleanshave.org using my cell phone for the most part. This is a cumbersome and time consuming task, and in fact I spent over 4 hours yesterday adding...
WordPress Mobile Posting
I downloaded the Worpress App to my *sort-of cell phone. It looks great, probably even works amazing for posting to your WordPress blog from your mobile if you have the data and/or memory. But I don’t. That’s why there...
YOU MIGHT BE HIKER TRASH IF…
The full list of reasons that you might be Hiker Trash. I’ve had a fun run making up these “You might be Hiker Trash,” quotes and tweeting them for hikers and backpackers populating both Twitter and my Facebook feed....
BREAKING ELMORE LEONARD’S WRITING RULES
When it comes to writers I’d like to emulate the name Elmore Leonard is always at the top of that list. So when a friend was asking for a quick book to read about how to be a better...