A New Year, a New Season

2017 will be a new season for theUMB

The past few months have seen a lot of shifts in the Osgood home. Some good, some bad. It’s caused me to reflect a bit more than normal, and reprioritize some things in my life. That will mean some changes here at theUMB.

First of all, let’s be clear: theUMB is not going away. We believe in what we’re doing, and I don’t see that changing.

That said, we’ll be adjusting some of our scheduling. For the better part of two years, we’ve posted new content on the site twice per week (or more) on Mondays and Fridays. Going forward, at least for the immediate future, we’ll be slipping into one post per week (though we’ll be starting an interesting new series, but more on that later) on Mondays, with our Weekly Updates emails still going out on Fridays (which you should totally subscribe to).

This past summer, John Teran (who runs our social media) and I were exploring an option that might make it even more frequent. In retrospect, that might have been a little ambitious, just for my time’s sake. We were very excited, perhaps overly so, and when intense seasons hit us both at work… Well, nothing happened. My hope, though, is that the idea isn’t dead on the vine. We’re both still very interested in moving forward. And as we do, this will probably get us back into more frequent content.

That said, please stay tuned. As much as this has been a challenging season for Clara and me, it hasn’t been the worst. I’m starting off the new year with a confession. Something you probably wouldn’t see coming. And once I do, make yourself comfortable. I’ve got a lot to say on the subject, so Monday’s post will be an intro to a series that will probably last into March. And as this season of winter comes to an end, you’ll have a good idea of what one of our most wintry seasons of life and marriage was like.

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Philip Osgood is a Christian husband, father, and writer who considers himself a passable video game player, fiction reader, camping and hiking enthusiast, welder, computer guy, and fitness aficionado, though real experts in each field might just die of laughter to hear him claim it. He has been called snarky, cynical, intelligent, eccentric, creative, logical, and Steve for some reason. Phil and his beautiful wife Clara live in Texas with their children in a house with a dog but no white picket fence. He does own a titanium spork from ThinkGeek, though, so he must be alright.

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