I was recently contacted by Emma from Nature Center Magazine. She asked if would be willing to be interviewed for her blog. I agreed and soon received a list of questions in an e-mail. These I answered in a reply to her. Yesterday, she published the interview, which you can read it here.
The Interview starts this way:
Tell us what your blog is all about.
Thank you. Secondary Roads is about enjoying and appreciating life in retirement. No more board meetings, no deadlines, no more dealing with office politics and long-range commutes in heavy traffic. It’s about life on a rural dirt road, where wildlife and livestock greatly outnumber humans. It’s about happiness and contentment in solitude and in the wonderful world that is our inheritance.
Perhaps this haiku of mine sums it up best:
Alone I sit here,
Looking out upon my world.
Finding joy in all.
If you want to read the rest, follow the link above. If you do, please leave a comment with Emma and thank her for the interview and wish her a happy birthday. She already knows that my wife’s name is Sylvia, not Martha. Thanks.
The interview was excellent. I really enjoyed reading it.
Thanks Ratty,
It was a fun interview and I enjoyed doing it.
I really like your frontpage saying that the place that you live has more wilds than humans. It made me so curious and chuckle about life in your country! Welcome to my blog of tropical land and it’s terrible hot in my country then!
There are farm fields on three sides of me. One of them is pasture (grass for eating) for the neighbor’s cattle. They outnumber humans. Also neighbor’s chickens outnumber humans. Wild life of many types is plentiful.
For nearly three years, I lived just 6 miles (10 kM) south of the equator in South America. It was at nearly 10,000 ft elevation so the weather was not bad at all, but the air was thin. 🙂 Your land is beautiful and I enjoy seeing pictures from there, but I will stay here.
Well how fun was that?
Quite a bit actually. It also made me think about blog fundamentals and focus.
I have to believe you enjoyed doing that interview!
If you do believe that, you are right. It was fun.