Welcome back to another mainstay of my blog: the beginning of the year review. I can’t believe I started doing this in 2021 on a whim and now… it’s 2025. As the wise David Byrne of Talking Heads fame once sang “letting the days go by…” and in that same song “same as it ever […]
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