Welcome to Glee's Web Site!

The spectacular
view from
"Casa Panorama"
Aerial view
of
"Casa Panorama"
Aerial
photos
of Reno
Family Bike Tour of
The Historic Buildings of
Downtown Reno

Family Bike Tour of
The Landmark and
State Champion Trees of
Downtown Reno
The KyootSkoot
(it's an eGO
electric scooter)
El Nidito
del Rey [bed]

A PREVIOUSLY
UNCLAIMED TREASURE

     
   		     
   		     
   		     
   

NOW CLAIMED BY
THIS WONDERFUL MAN

                   
The Wedding Gallery for the newlywed lovebirds

The slide show for the WillisTons' self-propelled tandem cycling trips:
in the Baleares in May 2005
along the Danube in September 2007
                   
John Ton's awesome koi pond, drawn in chalk.
John's most recent sign commission COMPLETED!!!
Check out his MURALS and SIGNCRAFTING on John's website
I am no longer the head of the DeLaMare Library at UNR.
My title now is "Digital Projects Librarian" and I now work in the mother of all Mother Ships (a.k.a. the UNR Knowledge Center).
Our digital projects have been wildly successful -- please check them out!

Once upon a time, I had my own "cult", known affectionately as AFORG.
I have no idea how many of them believe in the The Affirmation of Humanism nor how many of them have read Desiderata.

My (life and my) Photo Gallery is under constant re-construction.
Photos from my car wreck and subsequent rehabilitation are in the Rehab Photo Gallery

I am a member of the Online Glee Club.

The old energy economy that is cheating us as a planet is very well organised, highly centralized, rich as can be and very well politically connected. The new energy future is decentralized, entrepreneurial and needs people like you and me to say 'Give me a clean car, give me solar shingles to put on my roof - give me a clean future'. -- Bill Clinton

You might enjoy reading my account of the two-day Pony Express/Overland Trail retrace
mountain bike ride I participated in during the summer of 1995.

Please read this wonderful piece by Rick Steves explaining how difficult it is to be jingoistic once you've traveled the world.

No place has ever touched me as much as Botswana.
Nothing is quite as humbling as a safari encounter with the earth's most majestic creatures
and time spent with the people who are so proud to be Batswana.
I sincerely urge you to read Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, based in Botswana,
if you haven't already done so, as it comes very close to perfectly conveying the magic that is Botswana.

"Heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done,
regardless of the consequences to themselves of getting it done."

"The real transforming effect of the Internet is its breakdown of the information hierarchy. ... The information owner [pre-Internet] set the criteria and price for its dissemination. The Internet has broken down this barrier by eliminating impediments to global information sharing, thus equalizing the relationship between those who own information and those who want it. Information is becoming a commodity whose value is determined by all who have access to it. This fundamentally changes the role of the information owner to a value-added knowledge facilitator. The Internet provides lots of information, but trusted sources are still needed to filter and interpret it, to turn it into knowledge."
-- Jonathan Peizer, CIO of the Soros Foundations

"Why travel if you know where you are? One travels for the pleasure of being lost."
-- Christopher Hope

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-- Mahatma Gandhi


My Favorite Causes and Community Groups
The Hunger Site
Set this link up as your homepage, so you'll remember to click to feed the hungry once a day!
Tahoe Rim Trail
Rails-To-Trails Conservancy
Truckee Meadows Trails Association
East Broad Top Railroad
 Oregon-California Trails Association
Mono Lake Committee
The Gorilla Foundation
 Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Planned Parenthood
The Procrastinating Pedalers of Reno
Alzheimer's Disease Research
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
People For The American Way
Americans United for the
Separation of Church and State
Bike and Cruise
The 11 Most Endangered Structures In NevadaWILD PACAfrican Wildlife Foundation

Of the approximately 6 billion people on the planet:
3 billion suffer from malnutrition
more than 4 billion are illiterate
about 5 billion live in substandard housing
and 50% of the total have never seen a computer nor even made a telephone call ...

Read more about the typical global village inhabitant.

I am offering the following items free to good homes on a first come, first served basis!
One: Pentax IQ Zoom 200 Camera

Also, don't forget to ...
VISIT Graphic Our digital projects page    and ... Send me mail graphic Glee Willis, who can be contacted at
glee at john-ton.com
... and thank you for visiting my home page!

Rev. 8/24/08