This is my last Drift column for SLHI. I’m cleaning out my office after 16 rewarding and productive years. It never ceases to amaze me how incredibly lucky I’ve been to get paid for doing what I love: reading, writing, learning new things, hanging out with stimulating people and doing good work. I never had a game plan – I stumbled into interesting things and fashioned a life as I went along. Patterns emerge, but only through the rear view mirror.

Anyway, I’m drifting on. Here are a few odds and ends from the clutter of my so-called “working” life. It’s free form. It’s what brought me to this point, so it might as well take me out.

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