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The last few months I’ve been especially conscious of how time is passing us by.

This being my original Liberty Weekly mailing list, some of you have been with me since I got my original Tom Woods shoutout in July 2016.

That was almost ten years ago now.

At thirty-two I am by no measure an old man, but I feel like it. Those ten years were at once an eye blink and an eternity.

During that time, the arc of my liberty career has risen as Liberty Weekly, peaked as the Justin Raimondo Fellow at the Libertarian Institute, and I feel, waned with the demands of my legal career and fatherhood.

In that time, I got married (still in love), had three wonderful boys (currently two, four, and six), graduated law school, and started my own (successful) law practice. My personal life has been mostly roses.

Politics, now that’s another story. From COVID to Ukraine through the Mises caucus collapse, and now Iran, I’m damn tired and burnt out. I don’t know how Scott, Kyle and the Daves (DeCamp and Smith) do it all.

It’s a lot. Too much sometimes. Better to focus on what matters.

Despite that insight and my better nature, I keep getting the itch to express myself here. If I was more brave, I’d put everything into a writing career.

But, being my own boss should let me do both if I work hard and budget the time right.

So, here’s me, back at it.

Keep an eye out this week for some new content. I’m shooting for one email per week. Perhaps a podcast episode here or there.

I’ll be talking about whatever I feel like talking about. Mostly how dark fiction holds a mirror to our darkening reality.

And yes, I am still writing that book. More on that soon.