Aloha and Howdy! I'm Paul.

Welcome!

This is my personal website, currently containing 2,062 pages of essays, photography, and more. I use it as a live journal. Here you'll find my travel photos and stories, autobiographical episodes, samples of my writing and music, and much more!

You may browse my site by Timeline (the entries that include dates, will appear in chronological order); you can view it hierarchically ("Contents"), by Locations (seriously, check that out as it presents my essays on a world map showing where they're about), by Topics (keywords) and even a simple alphabetical listing by Titles.

Contents

Browse the site, organized by subject.

Here I've organized the pages by general interests, such as music or politics. I've also taken your interests in mind, dear reader; so here you'll also find an entry into specific series, like my Truck Driving Journal or my Alien Abduction diary.

Most Recent

Quick, check out what's new! (Or updated.)

Recently, I've gone somewhere, done something, or seen something amazing I've shared in these pages. Here, you'll find my most recent posts, covering a wide range of topics that pique my interest. Whether you're passionate about travel, captivated by photography, enchanted by music, or intrigued by computer programming, there's likely to be something here for everyone!

Most Popular

My most viewed posts of all time!

This web site has existed, in one form or another, since 1997. In that time, I've kept track of which pages have been viewed the most. Obviously, older posts may have more weight than newer ones.

By Page Title

Browse the site by page title.

Do you think you remember one of my pages by title, but aren�t sure? Here's a list of every page in the site, by title.

About This Site

How this website, one of the earliest on the Internet, came to be.

When I first created this website in 1997, its title was the same as its URL: PaulCilwa.com. There were only a little over a million websites that year, though more than three times as many as the year before. But, by 2005, most websites had site names that were distinct from their URLs (web addresses). For example, the site ONA.org was actually titled Ontario Nurses Association. Since I was, by then, developing this site as a blog, I decided to give it a bloggy-sort of name. But what?

Contact Me

How to contact Paul S Cilwa.

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