About the Blog

This web-log or journal started-out as a place that represented exactly what the title claims…actual thoughts of thoughts and other sundry things, pieces of my mind, if you will. Most of the postings in the archives from 2009-2010 are in essay or story form.  Family members and closer friends might recognize some of these reflections, as many of them will recount my perceptions of experiences that I’ve had over the years in my work with the health department as a communicable disease investigator working with sexually transmitted diseases, my volunteer work as a member of an Arizona State Supreme Court foster-care review board, and in more recent years as a police 9-1-1 call-taker, dispatcher, and supervisor. My formal education centered on sociology, with a bit of psychology and cultural anthropology thrown into the mix, so related essays, reflections, or observations relative to those studies may appear in the postings as well. Some of them might also touch on my childhood experiences and how they have contributed to who I am today. While much of life can be humorous, my writings likely won’t reflect much of the lighter side of life. The weightier elements of our human existence seem to come out more in my writing, so I hope you will not see the work as dark, but maybe just more internal, representing what is in the places where even you keep your more serious thoughts and reflections.

Since moving to the Salt Lake City area of Utah, USA, in the later part of 2010, the blog has morphed into an electronic display-case with photographs of the things and places that I have found on my hiking adventures in the local canyons and mountains.  There are still occasional writings on certain observations and reflections, but they have become less frequent as I have spent more time in the out-of-doors and surrounded by the beauty of our natural world.  My family and I moved to Salt Lake City in pursuit of a simpler life, one that was less burdened by the emotional and social turmoil that was becoming more and more a part of our lives in Phoenix, Arizona.  The departure from that environment and life might account for some of the difference or change in the blog.

I hope you’ll enjoy what you find here…if you’re looking for reflections on life, dig into the archives of the first two years of the blog…if you’re interested in captured images of the natural world, you’ll encounter those in the more recent posts.  Finally, if you do like what you find here, please leave me a comment so I can thank you for visiting.

Take care, and thank you for sharing your time with me.

Scott