Reflections

Before the year 2024 gets away from us, I wanted to take the time for a brief pause and reflect on where I am.

While I feel like I have so much more to learn and discover about myself and the surrounding world, I have also reached a certain level of maturity and relative self-awareness.

US States Wishlist

The states I haven't visited yet ranked in order of how much I want to see them

Update January 2024: States I visited since originally posting are crossed out. 18 to go!

Post-meta* Personal Archiving

*Intentional attention brought to my accidental juxtaposition of the Greek- and Latin-based prefixes for “after” within this text

What better way to my first post than with a meta-post? My experience working for a library has been all about a becoming metadata master. Learning the language used by research institutions to describe its vast collections is like possessing the keys to all knowledge. While the human brain has limited storage capabilities, every so often it captures something extraordinary, worth preserving in written word to share with others. With the stories section of this website, I offer glimpses into my…