…on WordPress.com and in October will be my 20th year of blogging, which I began on Blogger.

October 2005

I began my first blog, Just A (Running) Fool, to chronicle my journey to reach a marathon by the time I was 40. In September 2007, I finished the 25-mile Bald Eagle Mountain Megatransect, which, while short in distance of a marathon, was at least as exhausting physically, mentally and spiritually as a marathon, and, in essence, completed that goal.

December 2007

I began Journeying with the Saints to chronicle a journey through The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola that began in September 2007 and ended May 2008. There, I reflected on the Exercises first and then, after I was done with them, on other devotions with a special emphasis on the works of the saints – from Ignatius to St. John of the Cross and St. Benedict, to name a few – as well as sharing resources for devotions and the Exercises. Even though my wife and I are no longer Catholic, I still find Ignatius’ Examen a worthwhile exercise to reflect on the week or even the day.

2008

In early 2008, I began a blog to chronicle my reading on a blogging platform that eventually died. At the end of March that same year, I started an unfinished person (in an unfinished universe) with the idea of the blog serving as a portal to the other three blogs, connecting them all thematically: body, running; mind, reading; and soul, devotions. Then in April, I began a blog that didn’t fit into the body, mind, soul paradigm and was just for fun called Unfinished Ramblings, later Unfinished Rambler. Also that month, I began another reading blog, Just A (Reading) Fool, to chronicle my reading past, present and future.

The 2010s & 2020s

I went through several iterations of blogs with the words “unfinished” and “still unfinished” and even landed on WordPress.org for a while. Finally (?) I ended up here, as I say on my About page, to “send you transmissions (messages) from this unfinished person’s life, as I continue my journey to become less and less of ‘an unfinished person in this unfinished universe’ and a little more complete than when I started 55 years ago.” I also hope to help you become a more complete person on your journey too.