INTRO If 2023 was a year of big, obvious changes, 2024’s changes felt more subtle. Less of the big, large life events like welcoming our first child or changing jobs, but slow changes like watching Silas take his first steps, say his first dozens of words, and Maya and I making our little life changes…

The best podcast of the last decade ended last month. This is totally subjective, of course, and I’m not going to spend much time defending the assertion. What I can say is that it was the only podcast I listened to each and every episode of, often the very same Wednesday it was posted. It…

Intro Wow! 2023 was one for the books. Quick headlines: got TWO new jobs, moved into a new apartment, finished grad school (after 3.5 years)……and, oh yeah, we had a baby! Silas Harry Grant joined us in May this year and he’s wrapping up 2023 as a healthy, happy, cuddly little boy. We love him…

2022 felt like a return to some normalcy from the previous two years, despite the world still working its way through a pandemic-upended existence. I look back at the previous two years and see that this year’s ‘Travel’ list below has grown substantially (to something like 15 roundtrip flights and a few driving trips). All…

General Commentary It’s year NINE doing these reviews and, as usual, it’s been a reward going back to previous years to check on my musings, favorites, and photos. Combining this write-up and the “meditations” exercise I’ve done for the same span of time can actually be a fair amount of work, so I really do…

In part of my “returning back to normal” process that many of us are entertaining at the moment, I booked a float for today. It’s my first time floating in at least three years—since I left Chicago—and even before I left I was probably doing so only a few times a year. This, in contrast…

General Commentary Okay, 2020 In Review. How to start? How to organize this year’s post as though it’s just like the ones before it? This was a tough year, the kind of tough year that I—and the collective we—will remember for decades to come. We rarely get the kind of foresight of meaning, or the…

A little behind on the updates here, so I’ll combine the last two months of this journey together. This will also likely be the last of these longer updates, as the journey has solidified its own long-term path. I’ll probably utilize LinkedIn going forward for mini updates. The big update is this: next month I’ll…

Dear Lindsey, Four years ago I wrote you a letter answering a question: how did Donald Trump win the 2016 election? To do so, I scraped together everything I could figure out at the time to provide some kind of rationale. As much as I was writing for you, I was writing for myself. I…

Trying to keep some standard to updating these – so this will be the October update. You can find the past two updates by scrolling on the main page of my site here. The last six weeks have definitely had their own learning experience – including my first real “test”, in the form of the…