About

I am doubtful that I will have much time to keep this blog up. I don’t know where people find the time to blog unless they write for a living. I write for some of my living, but not enough to spend a good chunk of my time blogging. And if you are reading blogs too, you could spend a better part of your life reading and writing blogs. There are far more interesting things to do in life quite frankly. I like to read, a lot, but not blogs. I like to spend time with my significant other, but i can’t do that if I spend most of my time reading and writing blogs. Besides I am not much of a writer in the first place. You have to be an exceptional writer to capture my interest and make your blog interesting to me…something that I would read on a daily basis. I think I have discovered one such. It just started and goes by the name of West Virginia Root and Fur (wvrootandfur). Give it a look. It will be worth your time.

For the curious among you, the O’Keefe moniker was given to me by several members of my Yapese crew when I was doing archaeological fieldwork on the island of Yap in 1980. At the time I was a tall, red-headed character and reminded many of the islanders of one of their folk heros, David Dean O’Keefe, an Irishman who had migrated to Savannah, Georgia before leaving for the South Pacific. He settled on Yap and eventually became known as His Majesty O’Keefe among his peers who traded in copra. O’Keefe was responsible for figuring a way to more easily mine and transport the stone money that was exported from Palau several hundred miles away. Yapese stone money figured prominently in exchange rituals and the maintenance of wealth and status among the high-caste of the island.