Leading up to my 50th birthday today I have been reflecting on the past five decades and what has transpired in my life. Not since I first added a zero (and a digit!) to my age at 10 have I spent so much time focused on my age. It’s just a number, right?

Or more specifically, who cares what I have to say?

I’ve had this blog up for months, more because I knew how to set one up on the Linux system I have in my basement than because I thought I had anything to say that anyone would want to read.

But having the blog available means that occasionally I run across some topic on which I have an opinion and think to myself, “That’s a great blog article!” But then I think, “Do I really want to put that out there for the world to see? Who cares, really?”