Welcome to my new Blog

When my beautiful fiancé, Julia, and I were on our way to visit some friends up in Grass Valley Saturday evening, we struck up a conversation about writing. Am I a writer? A real writer? Or, as a Journalist, do I just regurgitate facts as they are given to me? Where is the creativity in my profession?

“I think I need to start blogging,” I said.

The ensuing conversation went from things like, “What do you want to blog about?”

“I don’t know.”

“What would you call it?”

“I don’t know.”

After much discussion – actually, it was probably about five minutes – we arrived to the point that I would like to creatively express my experiences and insights into the world as I see it, without having to work within the confines of AP Style, “Time; Day; Date; Place,” etc. Maybe I could really rebel and dare to put a period after a “quotation mark”.

Oh, it just feels so good.

We decided that my new blog should be about music, food and adventure – three things I hold dear to my heart. I like to eat. I like to think that I am an adventurous guy. I love the outdoors. I grew up in the mountains. I also grew up around music. I play the drums. I play other instruments – guitar, bass, piano – as well. Actually, I fake it on other instruments.

I also play the Ukulele.

Thus was born my new blog: Tales of the Traveling Uke. In it, I plan to share my stories of travel, my thoughts on food, and my experiences as an unbound musician.

I’m just a year and a half away from 40, and while I feel like I’ve accomplished so much, seen many places, but maybe only one tenth of one percent of all the places I’d like to see, my life is really just beginning.

I’m getting married in nine months. We want to have kids. The life that I thought I was ready for when I was reaching and rounding my 30s is finally beginning to materialize.

So here is my blog, where each week I plan to share stories of the past, present, and future, centered around music, food, fun, and adventure.

Enjoy.

Look for more stories of music, food, fun, and adventure in my new blog: Tales of the Traveling Uke. Subscribe here.