It feels appropriate that I waited to start writing this until Valentine's Day - a day often about unrequited love. Or, in this case, the unrequited love of data literacy initiatives and the frequently uttered phrase "what the hell did I get myself into?"

On January 26th, 2021, I posted our first blog post and announced our existence to the world. We are formally toddlers and act as such. We have learned to walk, run, and have had some crying jags and emotional outbursts, but we're growing.