Welcome Back

Hello Dear Readers, Some of you may have noticed that the blog went dark for awhile. I've had this blog for almost sixteen years. During that time it has played many roles - a place to share resources, a place to store reading notes, and a place to dream about the future. Over fifteen years there were almost 500 posts and almost a million visits. I've met a lot of people through this blog and it's part of who I am. However, a few years ago I started to have issues with curation. Some of the links were dead and I didn't have time to go back and update them. I shared some of my own resources via google docs without password protection, but people were always emailing me to ask for the password even though no password was needed. Some of the 'current event' type content had become stale. And sometimes, because I change and grow as a person over time, I no longer agreed with the content in some of my old posts. All of these curation issues bothered me, but I didn't have time or the emotional capacity to go back and edit/update/cull. It was too overwhelming. So, at one point I just restricted readership to myself and put the blog on pause until such a time that I could dedicate more time to it. In envisioning the act of revising the blog, though, I grappled with the question of what the blog is and what it does. Without knowing its core function, it was hard to imagine how I would go back and revise things. At times I have changed the mission statement of the blog to reflect where I was at in my career and life. The blog has changed with me. It's been a companion on my journey of life. Upon much reflection, I realized that there were two constant elements over time: 1) self-expression, and 2) sharing things that I enjoy as I encounter them. Going forward, in the short term, I am adhering to these core functions. And as such, at the moment, instead of going back and revising old posts, I have just reverted them to draft. So. Welcome back.