:: Coming out from under a crushing deadline doesn’t mean you’re going to be happy. It can mean the opposite.

:: I can laugh about it now, but I have never forgotten how it felt to have sent an email with the intent to make the world a better place, to have received praise in private, and then to have been humiliated in public. 

:: In 24 hours, the truth was before us, a truth that had probably been there all along. Sometimes things just die.

:: Today, when this fear of death hit me, I realized that I’ve been carrying these thoughts around in the back of my mind for so long that I can’t remember when they started. Perhaps two years of pandemic, of living under a shroud of death, has created this pall.