The Chris Chronicles
The book is NOT finished!
The book that I thought was done is currently undergoing a facelift. There is a new cover and a professional edit in process. I’ll update this when it is ready.
No, the book is not finished but my right ankle is finsihed for a while, 6-8 weeks, and I am stranded in Tijuana while I recover. I could use some help. I invite you to check out the fundraiser I had to start that tells the entire story.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fractured-ankle-has-me-stranded
The Coffee Chronicles
This is really where it all began. In 2001, I created a website and started writing columns. It was Pretty and me in an apartment in Maryland, searching for purpose and mercy. Well, I was searching for purpose and mercy; Pretty was searching for new napping places. Pretty now naps beyond the rainbow bridge. Me? Still searching. But I am getting closer to purpose, not so much the mercy.
As I relearn how to adjust my website, I am refocusing away from “An Odyssey Through Covid America.” It is still all here. You can find a link to all of the original material above.
Now? On to next.
I began a podcast, “Let’s Get Naked About Mental Health” where I dive deep into my mental health journey. I try to be an authentic voice to help people understand themselves and loved ones who struggle.
The next book is in progress as well.
I have gotten more into videos and am using social media to have fun and entertain. People find my misadevtures as fun as my adventures. I do as well.
You are welcome to follow along.
The Coffee Chronicles
Episode 2: Into the Deep
Episode 2 is done, published and uploaded. You can listen to it from the webpage directly, linked below, and I have no idea if you can download it from your favorite app--I'm working on it. The battle between me and technology is almost on par with me vs Murphy...
Episode 1: Diving In
It's finished! Kind of. Okay, not quite, but I am getting there. I started my podcast and the first episode is a wrap. It is being hosted on Podbean and I still haven't figured out how to share the direct feed. You can listen to it on their server. Tomorrow, I will...
Into the Darkness
Yes, I have been procrastinating. You would too. A couple years ago, a friend, a psychiatrist, told me to step away from this project. But it is time. I had a funny conversation with another friend a few years back. For some reason, she always imagined me as the...
“A Visual Companion” Completed
Yes, yes, yes: I was spacing out these posts section by section. But then the project got away from me. And it was a project! Maybe I went a little overboard? But I wanted to wrap this up to move on to the next projects. I am working on the third (and possibly final)...
A Visual Journey Part Four
The project over two years in the making is coming along. I bring you part four: Ghosting Through the South. This is harder than it looks. All respect to photo editors and photographers. I took thousands of photos along my odyssey through Covid America. I am going...
A Visual Journey Part Three
Drifting in the Current The house was sold, the new owners were moving in the following day, and the car was kind of packed–I’d get better at it as I went. I made that last left turn out of my driveway, the right onto my bootlegging back road that would take me into...
Part Two: Struggling in Lockdown
Struggling in Lockdown “Struggling in Lockdown” is Part One of the book. Part One is where I struggled the most in writing the book, only second to the final part. I hadn’t hit my stride yet, gotten my rhythm. Rewriting it for the book was difficult, trying to piece...
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Iceland…
A friend just had to cancel her trip to Iceland. She came into contact with someone who had been exposed to Covid. To possibly cheer her up, I thought I would share my major screw up. So, under the "misadventures" category... I never got around to writing about the...
Into the Deep End
Special intro that I will be taking out once I post this. If you are on my email list, you get this automatically. I think. I am wrestling with the email thingie so really have no idea. I am writing again, redoing my website, refocusing it and I'll be adding content...
Part One: Foreword
Is this thing still working? Do I still have subscribers? Anyway... A project that has been on my mind since I first thought of my road trip through Covid America was a Coffee Table type book, just a surface swim through my experiences and less than ideal photography...
Deeper into Aloha
From Peter Gabriel’s “Mercy Street.” Let’s take the boat out Wait until darkness Let’s take the boat out Wait until darkness comes Let’s take the boat out and contemplate the one word in the translation of “aloha” that never seemed to fit, but it seems more and more...
Morning Reflections
This is just WEIRD. I'm sipping my coffee at 7am. In case you don't know, I'm not a morning person. I have NEVER been a morning person. For 48 years, through grade school, high school, college, jobs and careers, I always slept in--the Drill Sergeants had a little bit...
Coffee Gallery
