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My retirement plan is pretty simple. I don’t plan to. I am fortunate to enjoy my work and see no reason to stop doing it in response to an arbitrary age boundary. Geography figures into that viewpoint. I grew up in the DC area, where the news was always dominated by local and national leaders … Continue reading The “R” Word
A few weeks ago, I was on a catch-up Zoom call with a friend I hadn't chatted with in a while. He made mention of the recent uptick in my blogging activity and then, very good-naturedly, took me to task for using footnotes and citations. He joked that he was going to have to level … Continue reading On Essays
There is a stretch of my career I tend to skip over. When I tell the story of how I got here, I usually start somewhere around Zekiah, sometimes a little earlier, but the three years I spent at Booz Allen Hamilton in the 1990s rarely get more than a sentence. I move past them … Continue reading Reading the Terrain
Getting nothing but static, getting nothing but staticStatic filling my attic from Channel Z - The B-52's I joined LinkedIn first. A friend recommended it to me at the time and I signed up on February 11, 2004. Member number 224,376. I made my first attempt at a blog in 2005 and scuttled it after … Continue reading Reclamation
This question comes up more frequently than I would expect. I've been writing here since 2006 and this blog is a good map of my professional journey over that time. Most often, when people ask me the titular question, they are wondering how I can keep this up for so long. Less frequently, the question … Continue reading How Do I Write?