Welcome to the Blogosphere
I have finally entered the blogosphere! Well, I can’t exactly say finally since I have written a number of blogs on other websites over the years. The reason I decided to have my own website with a place for blogs is to feel a certain freedom to write on the topics on my mind. Actually, there are really a few reasons.
Why a Blog?
The first is that I have so darn much to say. After working as a veterinarian in over 30 countries and for almost as many years, and with my love of travel ignited by a summer spent in Kenya when I was 22 years old; following a childhood of watching enough Tarzan and Jane (Goodall that is!) to know that Africa was for me, I have been fortunate to work across the globe and with an amazing collection of people and animals.
The second reason is that I have been working on a book, for far too long, which will share many of the stories along the way and the places, people and most importantly the animals I have been so fortunate to spend time with. However, I have felt a false sense of having all the time in the world to produce said book! With a little guidance from my social media Guru, I have launched this site to get the stories/chapters written while others (you!) prod me to get the book published.
In this way I hope that people will want to read the blogs that cover my veterinary and conservation work and that have created my world views. Somehow, and my social media Guru assures me this is possible, I would also love to hear from readers as to what topics to explore.
Lastly, the third reason for having a blog is that there have been one or two times when an article I submitted wasn’t accepted (nice way of saying rejected!) but that I feel have ideas worth sharing. What better place to share these ideas and maybe an ideal or two, than in a blog? And, I promise I personally think the few articles that were never published are good and I am not really sure why they were rejected in the first place!
Making Time For Meaningful Things
Life is busy, right? I have a full time job, a full time family that includes a dog – Dixie Dingo Danger Deem, and a half time social life! But, there is so much to say and so many great topics to discuss that these blogs and the eventual book (hold that thought…) must get written. My—hopeful—promise is that a new blog will appear twice a month until the book is out the door.
Thanks for reading this and I hope you will check in periodically to see what is on “the blog”. Some of the issues top on my mind these days include politics, biodiversity conservation, One Health, politics, the Anthropocene, the human-animal bond, climate change, politics, economics on a finite planet, and how we can all live together on the only place—Earth—known to support life. Of course this will be done with a number of flashbacks from Argentina to Zimbabwe, and the 28 countries in between, where I have been fortunate to perform veterinary and conservation work over the years. I think I will like blogging!