Oops.

I have always been notoriously bad at keeping diaries or journals.  I have several dusty piles of very cute notebooks in my childhood bedroom that would prove this.  Apparently, this blog is another thing to add to that pile.  While well intentioned, I always find myself running out of time or too self-critical to properly reflect on things in the moment.  I'm just beginning my last semester of graduate classes at Michigan State University and for the purposes of the course I am taking, I need to write and publish all of my assignments on a personal blog.  Rather than starting a brand new site, I decided that I liked the poetic closure that continuing to work on this forgotten blog will give me.  Even seven years later, with many first days, many triumphs, and many challenges under my belt, what I said in that initial post still rings true.  It actually makes me kind of proud to still feel like my mission, while maybe a little more refine or specific, is still the same.  Everyday, I'm trying to find more sailors to inspire through my education.