Coming up on the 1 year anniversary of starting my website, and it amazes me how much life can change in such a short period of time.

Born and raised in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, and I’m finally saying goodbye. It’s been a beautiful and rainy 28 years, but I’m moving to San Francisco.

It’s a big change for me, and I’m bitter sweet about it. I’m excited to be trying someplace new, and sad and scared by the way time goes by. Of course, I can’t ever say that phrase without Riff Raff’s “Time” immediately getting stuck in my head, but it’s frighteningly true.

Life before teaching feels like a different life, but that’s only been the past five years. My first year of full time teaching ended with the Covid-19 epidemic. I remember feeling so anxious at my new job, especially since it was a small school, where I would have 6 preps and was responsible for the entire high school’s curriculum.

Five years later, and I can say I’m not that anxious about my new job. I know it’s going to be different, especially since the school literally has 10 times the number of students. But I’m far more confident in myself and my abilities than I was fresh out of grad school.

Writing wise, it’s been a good year. I haven’t reached all my goals, but I have been consistent and finished the first few projects that were planned for the year. I have more plans that I’m excited to share next week, and while I’ve been taking a break from writing for the end of the school year and moving next month, I’m ready to get started on the next thing.

But the biggest change I’m looking forward to is starting a family. My wife and I have been together for six years, and we’re not getting any younger. We’ll be starting a family sometime over the next year, and I could not be happier than I am thinking about becoming a father.

I imagine I’ll have to change more than a few of my writing goals, but change is good, and there are seasons for everything.