Starting my biggest project ever

Paternity Leave

Just wanted to let folks know that my wife, Madeline, and I are expecting our daughter to arrive in our lives very soon. So, when that day gets here (amazingly soon), I’ll be starting a paternity leave that I expect to last until some time in January of next year.

Going off the grid

This is one thing in my life that I can’t half-ass, so I won’t be checking email on anything approaching a schedule until I get back (again, more here).

And, unfortunately, I also won’t be able to respond to public emails I receive from you lovely people while I’m gone. Even the loveliest amongst you. I sincerely apologize for this, but there’s no way I’d ever be able to “catch up.”

My family and I need this time firewalled. Please be cool with that.

43 Folders continues

And, 43 Folders not only continues, but it might actually be a damn sight better than when I am at the helm.

I’ll write more about this on the site soon, but in short, I have a small army of friends, web luminaries, and assorted great minds who will be posting to the site regularly, in my absence. I may even post something occasionally myself, later in the year, but no promises.

Please hang with us; I think you’ll love our guests and bloggers, and frankly, it’s just not the same when you’re not there.

See you again soon

I’m honored and humbled that some folks have come to see me for who I really am — a person who’s struggled for years to wrest his time and attention toward where they need to be; sometimes succeeding, and often failing.

So, for the next few months, I hope you’ll forgive — and maybe even bless — my absence in that same spirit that might have made you like my stuff in the first place. Because this is what the whole megillah is really all about: making the decisions you need to in order to create the things that are truly important to you. Everything else is fiddling.

Thanks, kids, and I can’t wait to see you again as a tired and very happy father.

Update: Meet Eleanor.

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