Every so often, I check and edit the About Me section on this blog. I’m pretty content with how it looks these days (of course, now that I’ve said that, I probably will feel differently in two days). I always find it strange, confusing, and challenging to boil down my personality and filter it through a fine sieve into something I can present to you, readers, as an accurate (if distilled) representation of who I am and what I’m about (I am definitely all about run-on sentences and parenthetical thoughts). In an effort to foster transparency and cohesiveness, I think it’s only fair to evaluate the statements I’ve made in said About Me section and make sure that what I have placed there is clearly reflected in the material of my blog.

So here we go… I’m going to comb through each item and talk about them. Future posts in the coming weeks will cover topics I haven’t covered in great depth before but felt the desire to put on this About Me list. [A reading guide: text quoted straight from the About Me page is in orange and my commentary is not. Got it? Let's go.]

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