Well here we are, at the close of another year, and despite my checking repeatedly – it was in fact only one year since I last wrote one of these, not 10. 2025 was giving “This has been the longest week of my life and it’s only Tuesday.” This year brought about a lot of preparations, a lot of hurry up and wait, for changes that are coming.
Here’s to 2024, may the dog kisses be plentiful, may the pee fall outside (or at least on the tile), may the miles be injury free, the sunshine spots plentiful, and the days be more happy than sad.
There were lots of changes this year. We got a new dog. I got a new job. We will (almost definitely) have to move out of Utah in the next 3-5 years because The Great Salt Lake is drying up and will become a toxic arsenic dust field blowing (more) carcinogens into the air. That […]
There were also good moments, where we saw humanity in others, we visited with family and friends on zoom, we exchanged homemade foods on each other’s doorsteps, and we learned to listen to those who are being persecuted and silenced.
This year we didn’t travel quite as much as last year. We didn’t run or race as much as we did the year before either. This year was definitely the calm before the storm that is to be 2020.