I want to take a moment here at the midpoint of the year to reflect on and celebrate some of my achievements in the first half of the year gone by.

What is still most deeply here to push me forward is my curiosity and my eclecticism and my talent for connection.

My ‘normal routine’ right now is to work at accepting that I don’t know what’s coming next and to forge ahead as bravely and transparently as I can.

What makes an object real? Who determines that realness? How important is that realness to a museum visitor? And, maybe most importantly to those of us in the museum field, how can a museum balance out the nebulous concept of realness with an authentic, true experience.