How Not to Write a Bio

I have been wanting to update my bio on the About page for a while as evidenced by the note I put at the top over three years ago “This page is quite old at this point and I am in the process of writing a new one.” I mostly had not updated it since 2011 beyond the annual update to my age. I originally had code updating that, but it did not carry over when I switched the CMS in 2015. I think I still look young for my age, but that “baby face” bit is not as interesting (nor as common) once you get into your forties. (Apparently I have not even updated the age part in a couple years. I am actually 47 as of this writing. You can’t trust anything online these days!) I thought I had rewritten the bio from scratch in 2011, but it looks like it was a slight reframing of the version I had since mid-2000s. It is interesting re-reading those and mapping my political and spiritual journeys through those times. I think that is one of the reasons it took me so long to re-write it. I still wanted a…