About this blog

I write most of the entries in this blog as emails to family members on both sides of our family and then post them here as an archive for Reid Elizabeth when she is older. I write the entries as I ride the bus, wait for meetings to start or when I need a break from the craziness that is my job. The timestamps indicate when the text was written rather than when it was posted. Someday I might do an analysis to see if my subject matter or tone is affected by time of day (but probably I won’t ;+)

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