Happy Sunday.
Running a little slow this morning, not going to lie. It was a good week though — went fast, which usually means something was working.
I owe you an apology. I got something pretty wrong this week in a Note and a Facebook post about Yiddish. I've since fixed it, and I'm grateful to the people who called it out. That's exactly what I need — if I get something wrong, please tell me. I wish I never made mistakes, but I do. The correction matters more than the error, and I'll always fix it when I'm pointed in the right direction.
The big news in my world… I finally moved my “office” out of my bedroom and into the room formerly known as my son’s. He moved out, I moved in. I remember when I left my parents’ house, they turned my room into a gym almost immediately. I thought I’d never do that to my kids. But hey, now I get it.
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