Six Sentences After Four Years

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The walk was forty minutes. I’ve done that route a hundred times: down to the park, around the pond, back up the hill. The dog ran ahead and waited. I was not thinking about the dog.

When I got home I opened the laptop before I sat down. I have learned not to give myself the option of sitting down first.

I typed her name in the To field. The woman who has been emailing me every December for four years asking whether I’ve thought about going independent. She left corporate six years ago, built her own practice, then went in-house at a portfolio company. She is a former colleague, not a client of my current employer. That distinction matters, and I’ll come back to it.

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Six Sentences After Four Years