It is always said that the most difficult part of writing a book is penning the first sentence.  It is with this in mind that I write this first post.  I move into this surprisingly nervous.  Seems like a strange thing to make me nervous, but still I am.  So here we go. . .

After months of thinking about, researching, creating, meticulously over-analyzing (as I am prone to do in all of life), and working with a very gifted web designer, I am finally beginning this blog.

With the beginning of this site (johngunter.com), I find myself in the midst of several of “beginnings” in my personal life.  I just moved to a new city here in East Asia.  I have recently begun a new assignment professionally/vocationally.  I have just turned 40.  These all feel like beginnings to me.

Even in looking at the span of a year, spring always feels like a beginning.  As a kid, spring signified the beginning of baseball season (which much of my life revolved around).  The new [Read more…]