Happy New Year!


2014 was quite a year. It was the year I realized I didn't want to be what I was on track to be when I grew up, the year I quit my job because of that, the year I started a new career path in the non-profit sector, the year my husband and I decided to relocate to a new town and the year we bought our first house. The year I recklessly and gloriously took a month of unpaid leave to travel around Europe.

The year I read Tiny Beautiful Things until the spine cracked, looking for answers and comfort and advice in the words of strangers, the year I opened my eyes back up to the world of comics and graphic novels and found there a wealth of stories I'd never known existed, the year I decided to read more classics (again) and failed miserably (again), the year I tried to read War and Peace (again) and failed miserably (again), the year I stopped running and vowed to start it up (again), the year I spent a month eating no alcohol, grains, dairy, or sugar and lived to tell the tale. The year I lived with my father and got to know him in a way so different from how I knew him as a child; the year I first watched Dead Poets Society; the year I learned how terrible the world can be (again) and yet how amazing it is to watch people come together (again).

Bring it on, 2015. There's a lot we can do better this time around, but that doesn't mean you don't have big shoes to fill.

What are you all doing to celebrate today? Happy to see 2014 go? Looking forward to 2015?