Darlene and I got our first look at our home on Sanibel this morning. The ride from our Airbnb in Cape Coral via the miraculously repaird Sanibel causeway was smooth, without delays. Our purple hurricane pass hanging from the rental-car mirror led a sheriff at the checkpoint to wave us on by without slowing down. 

The scenes of devastation on our beloved island are sobering and put us in a kind of shock at first. But as we began connecting with the repairs contractor, our neighbors, and adjusters the work of rebuilding took hold. It will be a long road. I believe it will lead to a stronger community and houses better able to withstand the next storm. 

Stay safe!

I spoke with Kara Souza, wife of Sanibel City Manager Dana Souza, this morning about what she has learned about the island since Hurricane Ian hit, her husband’s leadership skills, and how anyone who loves Sanibel can help with the island’s recovery.

Click here to donate to the Charitable Foundation of the Islands.

You can also hear each week’s episode of the Sanibel Journal on your Alexa devices. Just say, “Alexa, enable Sanibel Journal” to add it to your flash briefings. Then say, “Alexa, flash” to hear the latest episode.

I have been podcasting for 14 years with The Kindle Chronicles and am glad to create this platform for sharing news and voices of Sanibel. My wife and I purchased a home on the island last year. We are headed there from Boston next week to see first-hand the condition of the house.

If you would like to suggest someone for me to interview for a future episode–including yourself!–please email me at podchronicles AT gmail DOT com. 

I spoke with Kara Souza, wife of Sanibel City Manager Dana Souza, this morning about what she has learned about the island since Hurricane Ian hit, her husband’s leadership skills, and how anyone who loves Sanibel can help with the island’s recovery.

Click here to donate to the Charitable Foundation of the Islands.

You can also hear each week’s episode of the Sanibel Journal on your Alexa devices. Just say, “Alexa, enable Sanibel Journal” to add it to your flash briefings. Then say, “Alexa, flash” to hear the latest episode.

I have been podcasting for 14 years with The Kindle Chronicles and am glad to create this platform for sharing news and voices of Sanibel. My wife and I purchased a home on the island last year. We are headed there from Boston next week to see first-hand the condition of the house.

If you would like to suggest someone for me to interview for a future episode–including yourself!–please email me at podchronicles AT gmail DOT com. 

As I have continued to think about how to handle the podcast during our trip to the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador in October, I had the idea to see if I might be able to upload episodes from my iPhone 6 Plus during the trip. I won’t have my MacBook Air with me, so this would be a streamlined, stripped-down version of the show. But it might be of interest to you, if I can find topics related to the Kindle and eBooks, mixed in with sounds and observations of a more general nature from the trip. 

To record this test audio, I used a very simple iOS app named Opinion, which enabled me to share the file to my Dropbox account. From there, I opened my Libsyn dashboard in Safari on the iPhone, and it seems to be working. 

Please let me know if this arrives in your podcatcher and how it sounds!

Thanks, Len

P.S. For the image test, I’m enclosing a photo of Claire taken here at Ocean Park last week. 

 

Excerpt from an interview on September 12, 2010, with Diane Williamson, wife of handcrafted fine art photographer Joel Anderson, on her support of his artwork through Twitter.  I discovered Joel’s booth at the St. Louis Art Fair because a tweet Diane posted.

Comments from Ray and Mark, two of those who attended President Obama’s town hall meeting on health care today, August 11, 2009.  Although they disagreed with the health care reform proposal, they said they thought Obama was honest and did a good job at the session.

Phillip Zannini, aka @phillymac, an good Internet friend of mine, tells how this morning on the way to Podcamp Boston 4 he received what may well have been a divine inspiration to launch a new podcast.  It sounds very promising to me, and I was glad to be one of his first guests on The Three Quick Tips Podcast. Stay tuned!

This is a presentation on how to pay for health care reform, given July 18, 2009 by Rahul Rajkumar, senior advisor to Doctors for America, at an Organizing for America forum in Dorchester, Mass.