I might summarize 2012 to myself as entering into the “dark night of the soul.” It was a really challenging year for me and the first majorly challenging year I’ve had since 2006 (I’ve been very lucky). It was the kind of challenging that, as I’m coming out from the other end of it, it was completely worth putting myself...

Right now, I am frustrated. And cynical. These days happen a couplefew times a year. Often, like today, one will come between Thanksgiving and Christmas…that fallow time that comes in those quiet moments of past reflection and future planning. Most are small. Some, like tonight, serve something much larger. Not everything goes well during the year prior and, sometimes, that...