What is this thing?

At the simplest level, this is my personal blog. I plan to use it to write about whatever comes up in my life, my interests, and my thoughts.

Topics will include: my tools and workflows for work and leisure, music, video games, movies, testing new software and hardware, historical perspectives, motorsport racing, and philosophical considerations of topics and events. It’ll be eclectic and unorganized, just like me.

I am purposefully leaving this quite broad. I will use prose, pictures, and drawings to help illustrate my thoughts and opinions. I will attempt to cross-post to social media, though I already foresee this being an ill forgotten step. I may make use of video and utilize my YouTube account, if the spirit so moves me. All in all my goal is for this to be as limitless as possible and see what sticks.

I am doing this for myself, first and foremost. After being laid off from my position at Iowa Wesleyan University, I have been longing for constructive quasi-academic work. I plan on researching topics and fully citing everything I talk about. Some posts may only be a couple of paragraphs. Others may scroll on for miles.

I invite conversation, either local to this site or in comments under cross-postings. I only ask for informed and measured responses which are respectful of me, others, and yourself.

Why the Name?

Kleio (Romanized to Clio) is the Greek muse attributed to history, liturature, and knowledge. Many historians have some sort of relationship with the name, such as license plates, mugs, shirts, or some go as far as to have tattoos of the muse’s name on themselves. In a way, I feel I will be invoking her each time I create a new post, just as Greek scholars, poets, and play writes did centuries ago. While I am unsure of the implications of this action, I feel it is all the same a fitting name for the kind of content I plan on creating.

When will you be posting

Knowing myself, irregular and otherwise sporadically. This is happening in my free time when I feel inspired. I have no intention of keeping to any schedule on my releases. Each one will require their own amount of time and care to be complete.

Where can I find new posts?

Here. On this website. Under the “Kleio” tab.

Anywhere else?

As I mentioned above, I hope to cross-post to social media whenever a new post goes live, but I do not plan on making any promises of this. Again, this blog is for me first. I am exited if others are interested in my thoughts and I have no intention of hiding anything from those who are interested.

Well, here goes nothing.

Pax,
Spencer A. Barton