Monthly Archives: January 2005

I’ve been sitting on the bed of the apartment for a couple of hours, trying to find a blog to add to my “Links” section. Darlene is reading next to me, and we are both swatting mosquitoes, which arrived today … Continue reading →

The scene this afternoon at Hawk’s Nest Beach, a five-minute taxi ride from Cruz Bay on St. John’s.   Send to KindleTweet

I was pleased to find that time management guru David Allen, author of Getting Things Done , has difficulty finding time to blog. I’ve been following his blog for a while (see the link I added to this page), and … Continue reading →

The view from my porch, toward Frank Bay on St. John.  Send to KindleTweet

This morning I stopped by the office of St. John Tradewinds , the island’s weekly newspaper, to offer my free services as an occasional reporter. I was expecting the general manager to be old, someone who had been reporting on … Continue reading →

Flowers at Gallows Point, on the five-minute walk from our apartment to Cruz Bay. Send to KindleTweet

Once again, blog-lust is stronger than mere hunger, and as 2 p.m. approaches I am procrastinating my walk down the road for lunch. After solid work on my upcoming review for Rain Taxi on Edward Said’s Humanism and Democratic Criticism, … Continue reading →

I have spent the last four hours banging my head against the mainly intuitive and well-designed Blogger interface, but I don’t have much to show for it. Half of that time went into creation of a long posting about a … Continue reading →

On the ferry yesterday from St. Thomas to St. John, the sky put on a lavish welcome. Send to KindleTweet

In a half-hour the Hilton Atlanta Airport’s automated wake-up computer will ring the phone in our room. That gives me enough time in the dark to shift The Chronicles to a new phase, toward blogging, away from traveloguing, although I … Continue reading →