To say that 2022 had some real highs and real lows would be a tremendous understatement. We went from the extreme lows of dealing with a Condo fire (which as of this writing is STILL ongoing. Not the fire, just the “dealing with it” part) and struggling with family health stuff, to the extreme highs …

Oof, that was…. another year eh? In my 2020 in Review post, I said that I wish Science, Decency, and Facts would make a comeback. They did not. And I said that 2021 could only go up, and turns out, no it can certainly go lateral, or even down a little bit. There’s plenty of …

Well….. that was definitely a year wasn’t it? I said several times throughout 2020 that “one day we will tell stories about this time. I look forward to doing that, and not being in this time anymore.” As of this writing, we’re still in a global pandemic, and I really hope that things look much …

I meant to post this much earlier in the year (2020), but as you’ll remember when you look back at this post years from now, 2020 kind of exploded on itself. As the year passed, I wondered if I should even bother with this, but I do enjoy looking back on my previous decade in …

Man, feels like just yesterday I was writing up my 2018 in review, and yet 2019 was a pretty packed year. It was a full year in Michigan, and I do feel like I’m in such a better place right now than I was a year ago, when I wrote about the depression I was …

It could be that the connected world that we live in makes us all far more aware of this, but there are too many people as of late who have been lost far too soon. Lately I’ve been wondering how much of that is just because we don’t talk about mental health struggles the same …

2018. That was a year eh? I started living somewhere other than Chicago for the first time in 11 years, I found myself truly band-less for the first time in 15 years, and a variety of anxiety and depression that comes along with big life changes like that. In a lot of ways this last …

2017 is in the books, and what a strange year it was.  A crappy year in so many ways: politics being a mess, every celebrity being a sex monster, and a bunch of friend drama.  But it was also an incredibly joyous and momentous year for me personally: bought a house in Grand Rapids, had …

Time to do my annual look back, and let the record show I did technically start this before February (in case I don’t actually finish it tonight).  2016 came and went even faster than 2015, and in a popular culture sense, that was fine, as it was a real crappy year. Personally though, Avery kept …

Well, it’s February, so I should probably post my annual look back at the previous year. Go figure, I actually thought over New Year’s Weekend “oh, I could get a start on my year in review post!” And then I decided to have dinner instead. And then it was February. 2015 came and went so …