About Me, The Bipedalist

You can read my Manifesto blog post to learn about my journey of discovering the joy of barefoot shoes, but here, let me tell you a bit about non-shoe me.

I’m about to turn 79 years old in February, and for most of my life I’ve been a graphic designer. In the mid-90s, after a decade or so of designing and typesetting text books, a friend pulled me aside after dinner and asked me if I wanted to see his “website.” What’s a website, I asked. I did know about the Internet, being active in Compuserve interest groups focused on “Desktop Publishing,” but I hadn’t heard too much about the “world wide web,” and as soon as I saw my friend’s website, however primitive it was, I knew right then that the web would be bigger, much bigger, than Gutenberg’s moveable type. So I plunged in to learning how to create a website. What a roller coaster ride it has been!

Now, after 30 years of building websites (some of my more recent sites are listed here on my business site), I decided to create this personal site, thebipedalist.com. I intentionally made the user interface “minimal” — befitting the subject matter.

Yes, there are some affiliate links sprinkled in it, with a disclosure in the footer, but the motivation for building the site is not primarily to make some “walking around money,” but rather to spread the word about foot freedom by creating, as one commenter on Facebook said, a “one stop zero drop shop”!

I’d enjoy hearing from any of you who wants to connect: [email protected]