Woah, has it ever been a minute since I wrote a proper newsletter. It’s time to break that streak. Sorry, y’all!
I’m sitting here in a concession/lobby sort of place while my youngest participates in soccer tryouts/evaluations. It’s kind of wild how time has made me so much less interested in this whole process than I was ten years ago. It’s not a matter of not wanting the best for my youngest, but rather knowing that me getting stressed out about it has no benefit to anyone.
She has great natural athleticism and could succeed in many sports if she wishes. I’m happy to help her push her skills to another level if she wants to. I can let her know that I’m there to help her push whatever she wants to wherever she wants, but it’s entirely if she wants to.
Generally we’re a family that finds ourselves more comfortable around the music-related groups than sports-related teams. This was true for my wife and I. It’s been true for our two oldest kids. It might be true for our youngest as well. And I’m happy to help her push her skills in those areas as well…if she wants to.
I guess we as parents must believe in the whole liberal arts thing. We like a well-rounded experience, running into a diversity of people until we find a niche where we feel comfortable. Then we hang out there for quite a long time. As long as we want to, anyway.
More from the Blog
The big blogging news in recent weeks is that the team at Good Enough launched a new blogging software – Pika. I’ve wanted to build blog software for quite a long time, and I finally convinced some people to do it with me…and it’s fantastic! bjhess.com is running on it right now and I’m really enjoying it. I even blogged every day in January! 😬
You should start blogging because I want to read your blog. Oooo, you could use Pika to blog!
I still need to import all of my old posts to Pika. In fact I’ve been writing the code to do just that in this lobby-like place at soccer tryouts. I’m almost there…
In Other News…
We at Good Enough also launched a simple contact form service in January: Letterbird. If you’re not quite ready for a blog, but you’d like to have a little page on the internet where people can contact you, well, Letterbird is just the thing for you!
Aside from blogging at bjhess.com, I also wrote a Pika launch announcement that goes a bit more into what blogging means to me. In short…
You should blog.
