Author Archives: len

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.  Tweet

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. Tweet

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. Tweet

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 →

The view out the window of my study tonight, back home in Denver. Tweet

The place looks fabulous. Francoise took very good care of our home while she was here and left lavender gifts in the bedroom, several new CDs in my study, and a supply of good books in French. Darlene and I … Continue reading →