Alive and Well: A Brief Update After a Long Absence

Just a quick note to say that I am alive and well, and desperately trying to find a way back to writing here on the blog. Several readers have reached out to see if everything is okay, given that I’ve gone dark since July. I’m touched by the concern. But really, everything is okay. Life is just busy at the moment, consuming enough mental energy to make it difficult to write. Since we last met… I was writing about ark, the personal archive I’ve been working on. I started building ark on March 31. One reason I haven’t written more about it is that, since my last post in the series, ark has grown and morphed and changed into something more like a personal archive/LifeOS. I hesitate to write about it when it is changing and growing so much each day. And to be honest, given how much time I spend working on it, I don’t feel like thinking about it when I am off the clock. Here’s a look at the time I’ve spent working on ark this year. We took the family to Alaska. That explains the gap in the…