Over the course of this first year of my term as editor of American Archivist, it has struck me time and again that archivists are writing across the full spectrum of our profession and are even shifting the spectrum as we write. I consider the articles that appear in our journal as separate components in the continuum of our professional literature. Articles stand on their own but are a unified whole, interrelated (borrowing from Eastwood) with the stream of writing that has come before and that will come after. Each issue of the journal provides a shifting snapshot