About

Jonnie 7-11 (a.k.a. Nacho Steppinstone, a.k.a. Rebel Leady Boy, a.k.a. Monkey Dove) is an Earth dude who grew up chasing Amish buggies in Northeastern Indiana before trading cornfields for glaciers in Alaska where he remained throughout the 1990s. By 2000, he drifted to America’s left edge, where he now resides in Orange County, California, working as an information professional (librarian).

Save the World began as a digital salvage operation—an effort to preserve old blog posts, mental souvenirs, and random sparks that once grabbed me by the collar. Launched during the COVID-19 pandemic and wrapped just before the birth of my daughter, Anikka; the blog serves as  a virtual junk drawer: not polished, not perfect, but filled with things I don’t want to lose.

Update: August 21, 2022 - Still focused on baby Anikka, and now wrangling her little brother, Llyr, and their magnificent, patient mother. Most days, it feels like it’s all I can do to remember to tie my shoes before leaving the house, so I stopped trying. Slip-ons for the win! I’m still occasionally adding content from time to time, between diaper changes and bottle feedings, when I need a change of mental scenery.

As for why I’m doing this—why this blog still exists—I asked ChatGPT and got what felt like a therapy session in return. Apparently, it’s about identity, nostalgia, escapism, digital preservation, legacy-building, and maybe squeezing out a laugh or two before everything I say starts sounding like a dad joke. 

So, that’s what this is. A loosely curated scrapbook of moments—some sharp, some blurry—all saved so I don’t forget where I’ve been, or at least have something to point to when I wonder what I was doing with my time.