Why This Website/Blog?

I took up journaling on a weekly basis back in July 2017 and have stayed pretty consistent with it ever since.  When I first started it was more of a reflection on the previous week and some thoughts on what I had coming up, but over time it has morphed into one of the ways I process what's going on both with me personally and in the world, and an avenue to think through and bring some structure to difficult topics.

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My thought is that by converting some of these thoughts into a more public blog-style format, I'll improve my writing while hopefully providing some helpful perspective to someone reading from time-to-time.  A secondary benefit is a means to stay connected to the many people I've gotten to know over the years and to possibly establish some new relationships.

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Most of all I hope some of what I put out there triggers some feedback and conversations, it's cliché but I aspire to be a lifelong learner, and this seemed like a good way to continue that journey.  Plus I'd never setup a website before and the domain tombirchard.com was still open so I figured it was meant to be ;-)