UPDATED: I originally wrote the short blog post below in Nov. 2022. This update highlights the embedded audio players, so the resulting We Are Chaffee: Looking Upstream podcast conversation I had with Beck Cerón, as mentioned in the post below, is available here. I’ve also included the player for Part Read more…
I’ve struggled for decades as a creative person who devalued his creativity if it wasn’t packaged with absolutes that could explain why I did things the way I did them. I felt as if I needed to make a lawyerly case to gain external validation for them, for myself. I Read more…
First of all, Humanitou and We Are Chaffee: Looking Upstream are essentially the same podcast. Different names, same me leading them. Same humanness and vulnerability and awesomeness of the show guests. A short explanation of why I started out as Humanitou, for podcasting and various creating under that name, almost Read more…
Editor’s Note: I am the host, producer and photographer for the We Are Chaffee: Looking Upstream podcast. I also write a monthly guest column related to the podcast for two local newspapers in Chaffee County, Colo.: the Chaffee County Times (Buena Vista) and The Mountain Mail (Salida). This is my Read more…
Editor’s Note: I am the host, producer and photographer for the We Are Chaffee: Looking Upstream podcast. I also write a monthly guest column related to the podcast for two local newspapers in Chaffee County, Colo.: the Chaffee County Times (Buena Vista) and The Mountain Mail (Salida). This is my Read more…
Editor’s Note: I write a monthly guest column for two local newspapers in Chaffee County, Colo., the Chaffee County Times (Buena Vista, Colo.) and The Mountain Mail (Salida, Colo.). This is the column I published in Oct. 2023 to kickoff the ongoing series with an introduction to the We Are Read more…
(Release Date: 08.08.23) Title: Joe Parkin, on cycling, doping and race fixing, and his many adventures in ‘search of that thing that so completely enthralls’ the mind and body Overview: In this episode of the We Are Chaffee: Looking Upstream podcast, Adam Williams talks with Joe Parkin. Joe was a Read more…
My conversation with Mike Orrill, retired Presbyterian pastor for 35 years, on the We Are Chaffee: Looking Upstream podcast landed in the on-demand Internet cyberwaves today. It also airs at 1 p.m. on KHEN 106.9 FM community radio, where most episodes of Looking Upstream are recorded, in Salida, Colo., as Read more…
Humanitou is dead. Long live Humanitou. (Read “What does ‘Humanitou’ mean? “) I’ve been on hiatus from the Humanitou podcast since the summer of 2021. After more than four years of publishing conversations on the Humanitou website, in one form (text) or another (audio), and of wearing all the hats Read more…