{"id":43388,"date":"2024-05-06T06:04:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T12:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/?p=43388"},"modified":"2024-06-21T16:41:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T22:41:31","slug":"what-happened-to-ben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/06\/what-happened-to-ben\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to Ben?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;text-align: center;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Email\",\"Print\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"big\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"bxwretlind\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"What%20Happened%20to%20Ben%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re a regular visitor to the website, you might have noticed that there is a lack of new content, a change in the balance of things. The <a href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/18\/review-passage-to-moorea-by-b-r-ohagan\/\">last review was in March<\/a> and before that <a href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/01\/review-kings-conquerors-psychopaths-from-alexander-to-hitler-to-the-corporation-by-joseph-n-abraham-md\/\">December<\/a>.<br><br>Why is that?<br><br>In November 2023, I decided it was time to take on a new &#8220;thing to do.&#8221; I have started on my journey toward a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, which comes with&#8211;as you can probably imagine&#8211;a lot of reading that is not for fun&#8211;journal articles, abstracts, philosophical ramblings that are difficult to digest. Not that I don&#8217;t find any of that fun, but it&#8217;s not exactly riveting reading.<br><br>That said, reviews are on hold for the time being. <br><br>Review requests, that is.<br><br>I will still be <a href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/reviews\/\">reviewing books<\/a> as I read them, although the majority will be nonfiction and probably related to whatever it is I&#8217;m studying at the time. (I&#8217;m sure a review of psychoanalytic theory will be just as exciting as it sounds.)<br><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image.png 600w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Spring Chicken. Not Me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m 52 years old. I&#8217;m not a spring chicken. I decided that of all the things I do&#8211;work, reading, writing, coaching, and consulting&#8211;something had to give. Things were out of balance.<br><br>That something ended up being reviews&#8230;for the time being.<br><br>I&#8217;m still writing, and in fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/twg\/\">just published<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/aebris-storm\/\">two books<\/a> in the last two months. I have two more that I will be working on throughout the year.<br><br>Other writers&#8211;that might be you&#8211;are the subject of my dissertation, so stay tuned for all that entails. I&#8217;d like to get you involved in order to help you. I won&#8217;t tell you exactly what my dissertation topic is all about right now, but suffice to say, it&#8217;s intended to help writers around the world.<br><br>I&#8217;ve also had a few setbacks in the past few months. Covid (I have not been sick in over 12 years). I&#8217;ve been back and forth to my &#8220;day job&#8221; a few more weeks than normal. The 2nd to last kid moved out. 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