Plans to Thrive in 2025

Looking back with fondness and ahead with trepidation

The year 2024 was much easier on me personally than the year 2023. Neither where I lived nor where I worked changed during the year. For the first time since childhood, I achieved my reading goal of 25 books, completing 26 tomes over the course the year. And I did not have to file any insurance claims for theft!

With the exception of my book benchmark, I prefer to think of my goals for each new year as intentions rather than hard metrics. Looking back at the goals for myself I published exactly a year ago, it’s easy to see why.

As anticipated, I fell well short of my aim to publish to this Substack each week. However, I am proud of the work I accomplished here. Highlights include:

• Exposing Seneca Scott’s unregistered charity, Neighbors Together Oakland (which he continues to brand as a 501(c)3 despite a cease and desist order from the state)

• Investigating…