Thoughts from the middle.

I didn't announce that I was leaving social media. There was no dramatic goodbye post. No countdown. No carefully designed graphic explaining that I was "taking some time to focus on myself." I just deleted all the apps. And honestly, I had no idea how long they would stay deleted. Maybe a week. Maybe a month. Certainly never a year. But for nearly fourteen years, some version of my life has existed publicly. After the 2013 Boston Marathon, there wasn't exactly a gradual intr