UPDATE

The Monday Morning Post is now The JourneyMan’s Journal.

 Why The Monday Morning Post?

I have long been obsessed with The Saturday Evening Post, as it is America’s oldest and longest-running publication. Did you know that its deep American roots reach all the way back to and include Benjamin Franklin? Franklin was retired when the Post began, but his print shop, owned by Samuel Atkinson, was still going strong. Atkinson started The Saturday Evening Post using the same printing press and style Franklin had used for his own publication, The Pennsylvania Gazette.

To me, The Saturday Evening Post represents the heart and soul of American writing – journalism, fiction, biography, the chronicling of the times. Throw in Norman Rockwell, the greatest American artist of them all, especially when it comes to telling America’s story in pictures, and you have a publication the likes of which helped explain and define us as a people.

I chose the name The Monday Morning Post as a tip of the fedora to the great American publication and its proud history.

What’s it about anyhow?

It’s about time. It’s about space. It’s about now”¦and then. It’s about you”¦and me. It’s about living and learning and learning to live while earning a living. It’s about everything and nothing.

Here you will find inspiration, information, investigation, improvisation, indignation, and irritation. You will not find imitation.

The topics will run the gamut from the divine to the absurd, from the practical to the impossible, from sensible to the nonsensical. We may float downriver or fish upstream. It may be an uphill climb or the downhill slide. The tide will ebb and then it will flow.

Come Hell or high water, come Monday morning, I will be right here.

Yours, Gene