Welcome to The View from Bogota. TVFB is my personal blog. You'll find diverse essays, many about applied leisure. You'll find poetry and politics and commentary on the news of the day. You might even find working drafts of novels and plays.

Why am I keeping a public journal? Why not exercise my right to privacy and keep this stuff to myself? I figure its like talking to yourself aloud in public. Few hear and nobody listens. Until you become a good enough orator to hold a crowd. That's all about practice, and so's this blog.

Yes, I'm sure this can be used against me, especially in the job market. That's OK. Consider it my personal declaration of liberty. The only way to be a writer is to write. One cost of writing is not doing something else, like having another job. So I guess this launching this blog and my others -- Better,Stronger,Safer and The Discipline of Leisure -- amounts to pruning my decision tree.

So feel free to eavesdrop on my mumbling. Just beware of falling branches. If you like what you hear, pass it on. If not, don't. Either way, feel free to engage in a little dialogue with me. I'd enjoy it. More soon. Be well.