Walter Hutchens’ Blog

Here’s what I posted on Jan. 6, 2005 in my first effort to start  an electronic journal, using blogger and a different address:

For many years I’ve been keeping a journal. I started while in college, more than 16 years ago.

I was then living in Birmingham, Alabama.

Since then I’ve lived in Evanston, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), Cupertino, California (the home of Apple Computer and one of towns in the San Francisco Bay Area that makes up Silicon Valley); St. Louis, Missouri (where I went to law and graduate school); New York City (living on Manhattan for a couple of summers while a "summer associate" for a big NYC law firm, then when I went back after graduation as an associate at that firm, sleeping in Jersey City, New Jersey, renting an apartment whose windows faced the Hudson River, looking out on southern Manhattan, framing the now-gone World Trade Center towers); Beijing (where I continued working as a lawyer for the same firm for another year and a half, finding myself there on 9-11) and now the Washington, D.C. area (where I teach in the business school of the University of Maryland in College Park, an area within the DC "Beltway").

As I’ve moved through this progression of cities, volumes have accumulated.

I am quite frond of this picture. I’ve often made it the "desktop background" for my computer monitors.

But my habit of keeping paper journals may be ending. Tonight I begin this online or electronic journal.