Found this poor fella (or gal?) within feet of my doorstep…

Found this poor fella (or gal?) within feet of my doorstep…
Whether you’ve arrived here via a link from my new home over on Medium, or are a returning long-time follower of Homeless On Wheels, I welcome you and am glad to have you here reading me.
Wow, it’s been over five years I haven’t written anything here, and more like ten years since I’ve posted with any frequency or regularity. I thought I’d better write something to let followers know I’m still alive and kicking. I survived a bout of Covid back in February of 2020, have since recovered and been vaccinated, and I’m trying to get back to writing more frequently.
So what happened to me? Well, I started this blog to write about the RV life and lifestyle, which should presumably include travel and adventure. As it happens, life got in the way, and while I’m still living in my tiny motorhome, I’m mostly staying in one place. My motorhome has become a stationary tiny home. I didn’t have much to write about that would be of interest to the intended audience of this blog, so I didn’t write. Shame on me.
Anyhow, I may or may not continue to write were on Homeless On Wheels, but I expect to be doing the majority of my writing over on Medium now. Over there I can write on a greater range of topics, not feeling obligated to keep within a niche lifestyle topic that I’m more adjacent to than being an active participant. Medium has a great community of active writers, and a much greater opportunity for exposure to a broader audience. So if you want to keep up with me, head on over there and follow or subscribe. And feel free to leave a comment below, if only to say “hi” and let me know you’re still around. THANKS!
I should probably mention up front that this is going to sound like one of those “things were better in my day, young fella!” kind of discussions that old people like myself are fond of having, so if that isn’t your cup of tea, feel free to move on. The subject at hand is what us geezers used to call the “blogosphere” — which is now just known as the internet, or online media, or whatever you want to call it. On the one hand, it’s good that blogging has more or less become mainstream, but part of me still misses what the old blogosphere had to offer.
I’ve been thinking about this for awhile, but especially at those times when Dave Winer, one of the original fathers of blogging, writes about the necessity of having your own home on the social web — instead of a parcel of land…
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Great post!
As promised, we’re going to discuss the problems facing social nudity in the U. S. currently. It’s generally recognized by people who enjoy social nudity that there are lots of problems. Hardly anyone would deny that. A golden age for naturism and nudism this isn’t. (This discussion may apply to similar countries as well, though there are often differences.)
And as we observed in Naturism and creativity a week ago, explicitly describing what the problems are is the essential next step to dealing with the problems after recognizing their existence.
Let’s also keep in mind that, in spite of the problems, there are changes occurring in U. S. society which are potentially positive for social nudity. That has been discussed here, for example. These changes include:
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Jean Shepherd Christmas Marathon
Tune in all day today, Christmas Day, for the Jean Shepherd Christmas Marathon. Hear him read from his original story that inspired the now-classic holiday movie “A Christmas Story” as well as Grant Reynard’s “Rattling Home For Christmas” – a great train story.
Jean Shepherd was an American humorist and these are but a few of his broadcasts from the 1960’s and 70’s when he had a late-night radio show on WOR in New York. Today’s marathon features some of his Christmas Eve and Christmas Night broadcasts.
I’ve added a new way for you to keep up with what’s happening around here at Homeless On Wheels. If you look over there to the right, on the sidebar, you’ll see a Twitter button, right below email and RSS. Or you can just click here: Follow Me On Twitter.
Notification and Communication
Following me on Twitter will let you be notified of any new posts. It will be great if you want to keep up with posts here, but email notifications or RSS feed aren’t your cup of tea. Even if you already subscribe to email or RSS, my Twitter feed will supplement with extras you won’t see here on the blog – occasional tidbits or links that aren’t worth a whole blog post, but are still worth sharing. It will also be one more way you can contact me, in addition to email and blog comments.
Social Media Butterfly – NOT
I know I’ve probably said before that I’m not a big fan of social media, especially Facebook and similar sites. That still stands — don’t expect me to see me on Facebook any time soon, if ever. Twitter, on the other hand, seems to fit in perfectly with a blog, mostly as an additional announcement and communication channel. It will also allow me to put to use my otherwise neglected personal Twitter account, which I have repurposed for use here with the blog.
Comments Are Open
How do you use social media? Do you find that Twitter is a good companion for blogging? Is it a useful notification tool, or not worth the trouble? Tell me your thoughts as either a blogger or a reader.
Even some minimalist authors seem to be following the mainstream trend to make everything we buy a recurring (and, in this case, expensive) subscription.
I kind of thought that minimalist living was about living a simple and perhaps more frugal lifestyle.
I thought that is was about getting rid of excess stuff and getting rid of clutter.
I thought it was about enjoying the moment realizing what is important in one’s life.
And because of these things I also kind of think that anyone else who has a super popular minimalist living blog or minimalist lifestyle website should be showing people how to do these things pretty much for free.
Now that being said, I have no problem with people writing an ebook and selling it and making a few dollars or promoting other products that have value.
But for one of the most popular and almost famous minimalist bloggers to be selling monthly subscription course to help people learn how to not procrastinate…hmmm, I don’t know.
PLUS it is 24.95 per month for…
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Gip over at So Much More Life invited me to do a guest post this past Friday. I wrote about single purpose, multi-function, and multi-tasking items. A few commenters thought my use of a smartphone as an example wasn’t the best choice, and in retrospect, they might be right. If you haven’t seen the post yet, or haven’t kept up with the comments, go read it now, and please add your own comments too.
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When I first started this blog a few years ago, I thought I’d write about my adventures — perhaps a bit of travelogue, how-to, and tech tips thrown in. It turns out I wound up not having enough to write within that narrow vision. Looking over the archives, it seems I’d been averaging only a few posts per year.
It’s not that I had nothing to write so much as I didn’t want to get too far off-topic. But what good does that do if it means I hardly write anything at all and my blog gets neglected?
I read a post about a month or so ago — 15 Reasons I Think You Should Blog by Joshua Becker on Becoming Minimalist — that really made me think about why I started blogging and why I should keep doing it.
Then just the other day Gip Plaster of So Much More Life posted Focusing Passion Means Opening And Closing Doors. Got me thinking that maybe I can change or even broaden the focus of my writing here. After all, it’s my blog; why shouldn’t I write about whatever moves me to write?
While you’ll still be able to come here and read about mobile and small living, you might be just as likely to be reading about ham radio, technology, music, computers, my opinions on politics or current events, or anything else I feel passionate enough to write about that day. Or that week, anyway. I’ve made a commitment to myself to post at least once a week, but to allow myself to write as often as I like.
Time will tell if I find a new focus for this blog, or if instead it becomes an entertaining potpourri of all my varied interests and passions. In any case, I hope you stick around and enjoy my “New And Improved (Now With Even More Content!)” blog.
In celebration of my “new” blog, I’ve added email and RSS subscription links for your convenience as well as a blogroll of sites I regularly read and am often inspired by.
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It’s come to my attention that I haven’t written anything here in a while. Wow… I don’t see a single entry for 2008 – how is that possible? Well, I guess I’d better write something then, eh? OK… I’ll have to do some catch-up blogging. More to come…
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