"Farewell" is the usual title for this genre, the final editorial from a departing editor, but I use it uncomfortably, wanting to say "Wait, I'm not going anywhere-and anyway I've already gone." I stepped down as editor at the end of 2018, and I thank Anne Hudson Jones for serving as interim editor for 2019 and for steering the journal's transition to some important changes, described in her own update in this issue. This also does not feel like a leave-taking, just returning to being a "normal" reader and, I hope, sometimes an author. I must admit, though, that it is with some relief that I step away from the work of reading like an editor. I found it difficult. I'll try to explain.
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