I’m Chad. Thanks for visiting The Simba Life. A journalism major and graduate student studying library science and archives, I enjoy writing about and discussing, among other things, cinema, music, politics, faith, U.S. history, archives, Back to the Future, and the Green Bay Packers.
I started this web-log in October 2006 as a freshman in college because blogging was the thing to do. But I’ve kept it up since then because I believe the Internet can be a powerful tool for communication, community, and understanding the world. The site gets its name from one of my many sobriquets, but also from a scene in The Lion King where Simba (which is Swahili for lion), having fled his homeland and lived aimlessly in the wilderness, refuses to return home to protect his family and accept his life’s calling – mostly out of fear of the past and of the unknown. He finally gets a shot in the arm from Rafiki, the kooky but wise baboon. “The way I see it,” he tells Simba, “you can either run from it or learn from it.”
And so I’ll strive through this blog to live “the Simba life” – a life unafraid of what I don’t know but still willing to learn from it. Help me out in this quest by sending your questions, comments, and funny jokes to thesimbalife (at) gmail (dot) com.
