*** Warning: This post contains a liberal dose of em dashes. It’s not AI-created writing, it’s I’m a former print journalist who loves himself a good em dash or ten! *** December has always been a crossroads month for me. It is a wind down on the year we have had, and a glance ahead towards the year yet to come. I know most people do this genuflecting closer to the holidays. I find that's too chaotic a time to allow such reflection and manifesting.  This isn’t going to be one