Apologies for Not Writing in a While I notice I have not written anything here since April 2019. Today is the first day of 2020, and I need to do better. I feel like I have had writer's block since I completed my dissertation in early 2016. Not that writing a dissertation is a minor accomplishment. In fact, I would have never expected to have written one during my first career in the Air Force. Also, my dissertation was probably way too wordy, as witnessed by two members of my committee actually having a disagreement on length during my dissertation defense. The point is that writing that thing was a major investment of my time and my energy. In my 50s when I wrote it, I had determined that I was not going to pursue the path of striving for tenure. That would have involved a lot of things I was unwilling to do. It would have involved moving from the Omaha area. I was not willing to do that, because by 2016, we had a one-year-old granddaughter (she is now going on five!) who...
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