Initiation

This is my first blog entry. An initiation into blog world.

I'm writing from Toronto, in the province of Ontario, Canada, where I've been living off and on since last August. I came here for a month-long intended visit, but fell in love with the place--and the spirit of the place--and decided to stick around for awhile. I've never lived outside of the United States for any length of time before, and this trip presented a splendid opportunity to do so.

I'm staying here with my friend, Renee Chan, while working and visiting mostly literary and film industry friends. There is a spirit here that is refreshing for me as an artist. Something is evoked by the zeitgeist that reminds me--or at least I imagine--of what Paris might have felt like to the expatriate American writers of the '30s, before the last great war broke out. I imagine favorite writers like Henry Miller and Hemingway in Paris haunting the cafes, bistros, museums and bookstores and meeting kindred spirits from around the world. That's how Toronto is for me now--a "moveable feast".

The emphasis is on "moveable". For the past several years my life has been given over to a nomadic journey as I've wandered North America from coast to coast.

This blog may, in time, become home to my musings as I continue the wanderjahre--the journeys of a wandering writer--both here and abroad.

My life as a writer--as a wandering writer especially these past few years--is not without interest to others, or so it would seem. So I'll post my experiences and observations along the way here from time to time, as the occasion and mood and circumstance requires.

For those of you who would like to learn more about me and my writings, please be patient. This is only the beginning of my adventure into the cyber-world of blogsites, websites and global online communities of kindred spirits. Please save this and tune in from time to time. The journey together may prove interesting.

In the coming months (and years) I intend to post my entire body of work online for the enjoyment (hopefully) of as many others as possible. In time, much of this will be posted here on my blog, as well as in other appropriate online venues.

In addition, I will use this space to keep contact with my many and growing worldwide network of family and friends. My friends, especially, are an exceedingly interesting lot! So please check in from time to time to see if I've made another introduction, usually in the form of a memoir or a story. When I figure out how to keep a photo library online, I'll refer you there as well.

Well, that's enough for an initiation, I suppose. There is work to be done elsewhere today, so I must be going. But I intend to return soon--hopefully within a week and no later.

Feel free to comment or introduce yourself at any time.

If you'd like to know a little more about me, I've just created my first public web page at www.myspace.com/rlboyer. Please feel free to check me and out and ... give a shout!