Hey there!

This is my first formal post for the blog! I just want to talk a little about what my hopes are with this. My goal is that whenever I stumble across something interesting in the writer’s craft or something beautiful about the wilderness and the outdoors, that I can bring it here to share with people who are interested in hearing about it.

I want to address my very first blog post. I put that up as the test post while I was experimenting with blogs over this past Winter Break. I was thinking I’d take that down and make this my first blog post, but then I realized that it’s fitting, even for this blog. I was experimenting between website platforms and blogging platforms, and I nearly gave up on this idea, but thanks to my friend Nick, I figured out how to get the best of both worlds on this, and so the quote stands: the best way out is indeed through.

This leads me to the last statement of this post, which is to thank a couple people in the set up for this blog. I want to first thank my brother, Richard, for taking the time to answer the questions he could, when I first started planning this project, and I had no idea what the heck I was doing. Second, I just want to say thanks again to my friend Nick for being incredibly patient with my cluelessness around the web and answering the rest of my questions.

Now I’m excited to post about writing and the outdoors, and examining where the two cross in my life, and sharing that with anyone who is interested in following.

Joe