I always wanted to write that word—Stardate—at least since back in my undergraduate days when I’d watch Star Trek (the original series) reruns, imagining myself on the flight deck of the Star Ship Enterprise rather than reading Kant or Ivar Løvaas. Who? We’ll come back to Dr. Løvaas in a later blog entry, but for now I can say that he was a psychology professor at UCLA who made original and significant contributions to the treatment of autistic children. If you have a Løvaas story to share, please do send it to me. I’ll publish it here.

I hope we don’t return to Kant. But if you have an Immanuel Kant story to share, I’ll read it and publish it with pleasure. For this moment, I want to bask in the joyful anticipations of stardating blog entries.

Welcome to my blog. My hope is that this website, including the blog, for will offer entertaining, interesting, informative, and innovative discussions about art and commerce. Some would say those terms are contradictory or mutually exclusive. I hope we’ll be able to shed light on whether that is true, on what the implications are or can be for considering art and commerce together.

Responses to blog entries will be published here so long as they conform to the site’s terms and conditions: I won’t publish anything that is in my opinion hateful or obscene  I will enthusiastically publish views contrary to mine or to those expressed by guest bloggers. I will use this website to promote artists and their art, thinkers and their thoughts, scientists and their interests and discoveries. That is commerce.

I encourage you to submit original blog entries and responses to any blog entry. To respond to this or any other blog entry, select the link below that will take you to the “Contact James Victor Jordan” page on this website. Complete the contact request, writing or pasting your comments or proposed original blog entry under “comments.”

I would provide you with a direct email address, but I’ve been advised by my IT team that its dangerous to provide an email address online. After you post a comment, I may write to you directly and then you’ll have a more direct way to reach me going forward.

Let me begin by explaining why I’m writing and what I hope to write about. As you know, I’ve written a novel: The Speed of Life. So I write here to promote the book. As I continue to write, I plan to promote my new stories, books, and articles as they appear online or in print.

Will I promote other author’s books? Absolutely.

I plan to write about current events, which largely (but not exclusively) means politics insofar as politics affect the earth, human and other animal forms of life. And plants too. I will write about literature and other forms of art. I will write about books I’ve recently read, including those I’ve read for discussion with my amazing book-reading group, Book Nuts here in the western area of Los Angeles. And I will post my photos I refer to in a separate section, a carousel I’m told, on this website. Photography, travel photography in particular, greatly informs my writing.

I hope you will tune in again soon. Please do send me your thoughts and if you wish, one or more proposed guest blog entries