About A Year In Mill Valley
Frank, Rachel, Nathaniel and Sebastian spent two years in the UK, from September 2003 to July 2005. During that time Frank kept a blog entitled A Year In Cornwall.
The blogging stopped when they returned to the States — there just never seemed enough time or space to keep it going. Recently though, Frank changed jobs, and with it traded in a two hour round-trip commute (by car) for a 40 minute round-trip commute (by bicycle). So not only is he feeling better about the environment, but his waistline and stress levels have been measurably reduced.
During the summer of 2007 Frank spent 3 1/2 weeks at home alone, while Rachel and the boys went off galavanting in the UK. He re-read some of his A Year In Cornwall entries, and realized how much they evoked the time and place. Realizing how precious these early years are — Nathaniel is 8, and Sebastian is 4 — he’s decided to try and document this next year in Mill Valley.
Wish him luck. And if you happen to read this, he’d love to hear from you.
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Frank, I saw and was both pleased and flattered by your blog entry about “Getting Things Done In Mill Valley.” It is one of the things I like about working in local government – I can help get real things done for people in a reasonable time frame.
As you may know, I am running for the Mill Valley City Council. While I understand that you live outside the city limits, I thought you might be interested in letting your friends know about your experience and urge them to check my website and vote for me if they like what they see.
Feel free to email or call me (at the earthlink address only if it is about the campaign – can’t do campaign work while at the County).
Thanks for any help you can give,
Maureen
Hi Frank,
You don’t know me but I’m a Cornishman who grew up surfing at Polzeath so it came as a bit of a surprise when I searched for backtalk.com and found your blog and found that you had been staying near me. The reason I’m contacting you is I have a company who sell Chiropractic patient educational materials to chiropractors who then give the information out to their patients. I see that now you’ve moved back to the States you are using a different blog address so I was wondering if you would sell me your backtalk.com domain name. I know you have invested loads of time in your blog so I would be happy to have a link on my home page for a year linking into your Cornish blog so that people who were still searching for your blog would have access to it. I know it’s a bit cheeky but if you never ask you will never know. I look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks
Jock Orton
Hi Frank,
I wrote to you a while ago about your domain name backtalk.com but didn’t receive a response so I don’t know if you got the message, so I thought I’d try again. I hope to hear from you.
Many thanks
Jock Orton
Previous email:
You don’t know me but I’m a Cornishman who grew up surfing at Polzeath so it came as a bit of a surprise when I searched for backtalk.com and found your blog and found that you had been staying near me. The reason I’m contacting you is I have a company who sell Chiropractic patient educational materials to chiropractors who then give the information out to their patients. I see that now you’ve moved back to the States you are using a different blog address so I was wondering if you would sell me your backtalk.com domain name. I know you have invested loads of time in your blog so I would be happy to have a link on my home page for a year linking into your Cornish blog so that people who were still searching for your blog would have access to it. I know it’s a bit cheeky but if you never ask you will never know. I look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks
Jock Orton