Day Nine of the New Year
Gene GlotzerIt's day nine of 2023. How's everybody doing? I hope everyone's good. It feels like a lot has happened in the first nine days of the year. We had that…
2023 – A Look Ahead
Photo by Amokrane Ait-Kaci on Unsplash Tis the season for retrospectives and prognostication. Since I wrote a retrospective of 2022 yesterday, I thought I'd try prognosticating 2023 today. The retrospective…
Good Riddance to 2022
Photo by Matt Hoffman on Unsplash 2022 was not my best year. Most significantly, I had a major depressive episode that it took me months to crawl out of. That…
2022
Jamil RaglandAs they have bee for pretty much everyone, the last couple of years have been difficult. Even before the pandemic began, 2020 saw one of my dreams become a nightmare.…
A Look Back at 2021
2021 was something. It just started like three weeks ago, but tonight is the last night. That was different. It’s customary to end the year with a little retrospective and…
The End of 2020
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash 2020 is coming to an end tonight. It was an odd year. Certainly not the worst year for me personally. 2015 and 2016 were way worse. It…
Taking Down the Christmas Tree
Photo by Michael Fenton on Unsplash Of all the grown-up things I have to do, I think my least favorite is taking down the Christmas tree in the beginning of…
So Long 2019
I can’t believe it’s the last day of 2019. It flew by. I still haven’t gotten used to writing 2019 and I’ll have to figure out how to write 2020…
Happy New Year
Here's my thirty-first December post. Only, technically, it's a little late. I'm still going to count it though. As an insomniac, I've always had a rule that it's not actually…
New Year’s Eve
New Year's Eve has long been one of my least favorite days. There are two fairly universal traditions, drinking and staying up late. As someone who doesn't drink at all,…