Photographs and commentary posted by Ed, whenever he feels like it. which is infrequently. Ed was raised on a farm in Monroe County, Illinois, graduated from Valmeyer High School. B.S. Journalism, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. A.A.S. Funeral Service Education, St. Louis Community College; licensed Missouri and Illinois Funeral Director and Embalmer; Licensed Fisherman, Licensed Driver, Licensed Married Person and Missouri Notary Public. (My Commission Expires July 17, 2017)
Friday, July 05, 2013
Now, where was I?
I think I was a "Journalist" when I first started this blogging stuff. It was all the rage back then. At the time I was at a trade magazine covering the business of inland river transportation -- the Mississippi River, towboats, barges, and all that stuff. There my interest in photography was reawakened because there's lots of stuff to photograph when you're on the river, from natural wonder to the big heavy machines of industry and commerce. Those would be mainly towboats. So maybe I would blog about towboats and the largely unknown yet popular activity among some rivermen of collecting photographs of these vessels. Ok, that might work.
Growing up on a farm certainly gives me a unique perspective on the rural culture. And now that I have moved to the city I see the value of promoting urban agriculture. For me that involves planting green beans and carrots in the back yard. One realizes there are plenty of farm and garden blogs written by folks that do it much better than I.
Four years ago I changed careers. Somebody told me when I changed careers I really changed careers. Went to mortuary school and became I funeral director and licensed embalmer. I cold blog about that. Funerals are really expensive and more and more people are turning to cremation. One problem with that is the first rule of an undertaker is to be discreet. I could tell you stories about the living and dead that would curl your hair, but it wouldn't be proper. When it comes to discussions about cremation vs the "traditional" funeral, there are enough bloggers out there contributing to the conversation.
Other Blog-tastic possibilities
Sasquatch -- I'm a big fan of that show Finding Bigfoot. They never find Bigfoot, but I watch every time its on.
The News -- I'm still a news and politics junkie. But who has time to aggregate the news on a blog when you have a fulltime job?
The possibilities are endless, but I'm not an expert on anything and know just enough about some things to be dangerous. Such as how to properly smoke spareribs. I certainly don't know enough about anything to fill a blog. So, like the popular television show that ended almost two decades ago (can you believe that?) this will be a blog about nothing.
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