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My view from the Amtrak along the Hudson River

2026: A Year of Interest and Action

On January 1, 2025, I triumphantly declared that blogging was back, baby! More than 365 post-less days later, I can confirm that blogging was definitely not back… baby. So, in order to facilitate writing and sharing in 2026, I’m shifting my approach. Rather than setting a schedule of what I feel I should address, I am using Oliver Burkeman’s advice and leaning into what is most interesting to me week by week. No grand plan,…

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Just a few memories from two momentous months!

Marvelous May and Jubilant June.. with a Job!

I’ve opened and shut the Google doc where this post lives what feels like a thousand times (or alternatively left the tab in a sea of tabs until its title was unidentifiable). What I have to share is celebratory and exciting, so I was initially surprised by this writing block. But the months of May and June marked periods of transition, and those transitions, however positive, almost always include a sense of loss. And while…

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