Paul Riley's Home on the World Wide Web

Welcome! This website was originally launched in January 2017 as an idealistic act of building community. It lay dormant for years until 2019, when I used it to host a modern blog. Then in 2024, I began major renovations. I'm still in the process of creating a habitable space, but I'm glad that you're visiting. Maybe you can help me out?

I'm interested in merging the two versions of the Internet that I love: the barebones aesthetic of the late '90s with the convenience and multiple media formats of the modern era. The best of both worlds. What can I say, you can take a boy out of the Geocities, but you can't take the Geocities out of the boy.

If I weren't so concerned with respecting artists and copyright law, I'd insert a classic GIF of a man in a hard hat here to denote this website is under construction. (As if all websites aren't perpetually under construction? Life is mutability; we are all in flux.) Anyway, while I continue getting this place in order, you can check out my writing:

• Weekly E-mails - Read the messages about my adventures and musings that I send to loved ones.
• Essays - Longer pieces
• Blog - Before I recommitted to learning HTML, I was using WordPress for easy posting. Check out a variety of posts from the past few years.

Here's an idea: let me tell you about the imporant people, places and things in my life on a page succinctly named About Me.