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Bewildered Beginner is a column of essays about starting things late, or badly, or sometimes both. I wrote my first book in my sixties, and I’m still learning what I don’t know, so I figure things out in public and write about what happens.

Five Today: The Gratitude Archive comes out of a practice I started in December 2011, when I began writing down five things I’m grateful for every day. I’m past 5,100 entries now. Each post pulls one from the archive and looks at what it meant when I wrote it and what it means to me today.

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