A little shameless self-promotion

Malificent and the monster - Halloween on Arenas Road

Two months and no blog entries. What have I been up to?

Well, I've been dealing with my living situation for one thing. The condo I've been renting is going on the market so it's time to find more permanent digs where I can get my things out of storage and create my own space. Knock on wood, I found a lovely one-bedroom apartment in the Smoke Tree area of Palm Springs that is not in walking distance of the touristy part of Palm Springs, but very convenient to everything else. God willing, and if the creek don't rise, I'll be in the new place by the 15th of December. It will be good to have my stuff around me again.

Palm Springs Pride, 2012

I've also been wrestling with a few angels.

Another chapter missing from the non-existent Dummy's Guide to Subsistence Retirement is the answer to the age-old question, "what do you do with the rest of the day?" Truth be told, I'm getting a little bored with retirement and I could definitely use some additional income. My current cash flow covers the basics, but there's little left over to feed my travel addiction.

Doug Graham and Charles Herrera in Gender Benders at
Azul

This move, and the unplanned expense of a new car will just about deplete my mad money fund. In Sarasota, I was fortunate enough to pick-up the occasional freelance job doing computer tutoring, and writing. I'm hoping to do the same here while throwing photography and event planning into the mix. I am presenting myself as a digital scribe. To quote from my website: Throughout the centuries, scribes have provided a menu of services for those wishing to communicate effectively: writing, editing, and illuminating manuscripts, painting a portrait to send to a potential suitor, arranging celebrations. The the artist, the scrivener, the cloistered monk, the master of revels, the jongleur – all served an important role in their time – to help people present themselves and their ideas in the best possible light.

I have done event planning throughout my career. I've done trade shows, industrial shows, customer events, incentive meetings, parties, and even weddings.

I've been doing photography for years for my own enjoyment but lately I've done some event and performance photos that turned out well enough that I want to explore doing some work professionally.

Jerome Elliott in Standing on Ceremony,
The Gay Marriage Plays

Toward that end, I've created a website TCB Digital, that offers a few samples of my work and links to several other examples on the Internet. I've been accused of not being very good at putting myself out there, and I have always been more comfortable promoting others than myself. So, against my nature, I'm throwing it out to the universe - and anyone who reads this - that I am a digital scribe available for hire. In addition to the website, I've created a page on Facebook and have revamped my Smugmug site for people who might be interested in my photographic skills.

Does this mean that Wanderlust is going away? I don't think so. I hope it will evolve into a complement to my other ventures in communicating on the Internet. If you have some free time, I hope you'll check out my website. And, of course, should you need the services of a digital scribe, I hope you'll keep me in mind.