Changing Focus

The politicians have various phrases (prorogue, recalibrate, going on a listening tour, etc.) they use when they need to change the agenda, and it appears that my commitment to this page needs a similar agenda change. When I started blogging, I resolved that a 3-4 entry per week was required to make this meaningful for writer and reader. Despite best efforts, it simply is proving impossible to keep up this pace. There are good reasons - the pace at Cardus is simply much faster with larger projects, more project proposals, and speaking opportunities coming our way, all demanding more of my time and creative energy. Throw in my commitment to getting my Masters degree completed sooner rather than later, volunteer and family responsiblities, and the reality that I am learning to enjoy myself (took Thanksgiving weekend off and read both Inside Harperland and Taking the High Road- last year I would've blogged a review of both; now I simply enjoyed them, put them down and went for a snooze.)

So rather than beat myself up over this, I am simply resigning myself to the reality. Hence, for the foreseeable future, the focus of this page will change a bit. I will link events / articles that I have written / articles of interest perhaps with one or two sentence explanations but no attempt to provide further commentary. This will allow (a) this page to provide a useful archive for myself in finding documents of interest and (b) provide a potential resource for others who may be interested in some of the same things I am to find articles of interest. Perhaps in the future again I will find time or occasion to provide more regular commentary on current events again, but for the time being, this page will end up with more of an aggregator feel.