Hi ;Wow - the last time I wrote to this list was (checks notes) July 20th! Back when I started this newsletter (upon the occasion of leaving my job after 14 years) in March, I had intended to write weekly. I kept close to that schedule for the first...

Hi ;Today it's been one month since my last letter to you and so I sit down to write again, after a long Saturday with my family currently in our summer bubble up here in Cape Cod, having enjoyed an afternoon boat ride and grilling dinner on the beac...

Hi ;It's been a month since my last email to you and I'm trying this newsletter to be monthly, so here we are! It's actually good timing, as I'm finding that even in a pandemic there's enough big things happening month to month to share widely.And in...

Hi ;What's new? I remember when I was trying to keep up with writing every week and letting that stress me out. My last email to this list was April 18 - almost one full month. That's my new self-imposed deadline... forget one week, let's get one out...

Hi ,I'm sorry for not writing last week. I again realized it was Thursday, as work got crazy and things got away from me. I considered writing over the weekend and now it's Tuesday. I can't pretend that I wasn't planning to get to Thursday this week...

Hi !If you felt my absence in your inbox on Thursday, then I'm actually kind of tickled you were thinking of me! Honestly, I didn't really put it together that it was even Thursday until about 11:15pm at night, at which point I actually did open my l...

Hi -While it's been almost four full weeks since we've been in isolation there have been two brief crossovers with my parents, the last of which was now two weeks ago. We'll see them again this Saturday, thankfully, as everyone could use something ne...

Hi  -Today's Thursday, for those still keeping track. But unlike the last two, it's just my wife and I now without grandparents entertaining the kiddos. We've been in isolation 17 days and almost a full week without anyone here but us four (not...

Hi  -Thursdays feel like good days for sending this newsletter. Two weeks ago (Thursday!) was my last day at Wiley. Last week, I had driven all night to relocate my family out of Brooklyn to Upstate NY. Today the sun is shinning, the snow has m...

Hi !This is my first email to you. Everyone wants (and deserves) a roadmap for reading these sort of personal newsletters, ie. a reliable structure so you know when to scan and what to expect. But I'm making this up as I go! So consider this a work i...