After a couple years of gentle persuasion, I finally convinced colleagues at my former employer (and also alma mater) to kindly redirect a link that’s been rather popular for years — the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling — from my defunct personal home page there to a site I can maintain. If you’re here for that poem, I hope you’ll note the link on the sidebar under “Pages” and find a link at the bottom of that page to a clean, printable version. It’s a poem of great significance to me, and I was recently reminded of its importance following a confluence of events: 1) a posting referencing it at The Art of Manliness, 2) a reading of the poem during a church service on Father’s Day, and 3) reflection on that same day in light of my first year of fatherhood.
Google Analytics shows it’s one of the most popular pages on this site. That’s for good reason.
