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On Moving, Traveling, and Being Present
I’ve been living in Lancaster City for two full months now. It feels both much shorter and much longer than that to me though. Similarly, we’re quite solidly in midsummer, yet it feels like the summer just began. I’m fairly certain that’s because I haven’t really been here here for a lot of that time.…
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June Small Goals
So, let’s not pretend it’s the beginning of June anymore. I’m still not sure how that happened. Anyway, I still wanted to check in for accountability and semi-consistency’s sake. These were my goals for May: 1. Make a plan for how to paint the rest of the house. I did not accomplish this in May,…
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May Small Goals
This was maybe one of the weirdest months in recent memory. Not bad weird, thank goodness, just weird weird. I guess that’s what happens when you’re in the process of moving out of a city you’ve lived in and loved for almost four years. I feel like I’m still reeling from it a little, and…
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What I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning to Code
A couple weeks ago I was invited to speak to the current students of the New York Code and Design Academy’s Philly class. I wasn’t really sure what I could say to help them out, so I just decided to prep a few slides on what I wish I had known when I started learning…
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April Small Goals
House and moving stuff is going to dominate my April, so I’m hoping that by recording a couple things that I hope to accomplish and checking them off will help me feel on top of things. It’s like when you add something you already did to your list so you can cross it off and…
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Moving to Lancaster
Big things are happening. A few months ago, I posted my Philly Bucket List — things I wanted to do before leaving Philly. I wasn’t sure what the timeline on that would really be, but it seems to be happening now. We’ve been in kind of a holding pattern for the past year or so. We…