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Caitlin Steele

06 Mar 2025 — 1 min read

Russell Steele on his 80th birthday.

I have decided to start blogging. No social media hookups. No grand LinkedIn engagement strategy. At least for now. If I were being dramatic, I could tell you the story about what my dad said to me the morning before he went into the surgery which ultimately took his life. How he gave me a leather-bound journal I had gifted him for Christmas, and how, with a shaking hand, he said it was too fine and his hand too unsteady to write anymore… it would be maudlin to share that his last request was “Write in it. Please. You are such a good writer.” But a dying father’s wish is not what any editor would allow, no matter that it really happened.

I don’t have an editor, but I do have a laptop and a credit card to pay for a Ghost subscription. And now, I have a blog… even if I don’t have a father anymore. He had five blogs. Hopefully, I will write a few things that would make him proud. Also, I just moved Scotland and about to have some adventures I plan to share here.

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