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The 2025 Soundtrack
Without further ado: my annual soundtrack for 2025. Disparate Youth – Santigold // Don’t look ahead, there’s stormy weather / Another roadblock in our way / But if we go, we go together / Our hands are tied here if we stay APT. – Rosé and Bruno Mars // My son’s first favorite song of…
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The 2025 Survey
I was stunned and dismayed to log in this morning and realize I haven’t posted on this blog all year. ALL YEAR!!! I attempted a Q1 catch-up post in the spring, which never made it out of drafts. But I refuse to break a 20-year streak of year-end wrap-up posts, so here’s the survey, with…
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Everything I Read in 2024
Fiction The Top 10 Summer of a Thousand Pies by Margaret Dilloway I didn’t expect any middle-grade fiction to make my top 10, but this enjoyable, moving, and relevant story about a tween who goes to live with her aunts deserves it. I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger A weird but unforgettable climate-dystopia novel about…
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The 2024 Survey
I’ve completed this survey every December since 2001. You can find past years’ posts in the Year End tag! What did you do in 2024 that you’d never done before? Wore my hair straight semi-regularly; threw a goodbye party for my uterus; took care of a diabetic child; took a trip with my bestie, our…
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The 2024 Soundtrack
It’s tiiiiiiime! A heads up, this is probably my most Parental Advisory, Explicit Lyrics year-end soundtrack ever. You can listen here (or at Apple Music, but I couldn’t get it to embed): 1. Pink (Bad Day) – Lizzo // If you haven’t seen the Barbie movie, this is the short morning song reprise that plays…