RETROSPECTIVE
Family & Personal Highlights of 2019
- New Year's with our friends Kathey & Russell and my mom in Michigan
- Keeping myself diabetes-free
- Trip to Lisbon with Debbie
- Karin's 2-month trip to Costa Rica and S. America
- Martin's 5-week visit home in the spring
- Trip to Stockholm to spend midsommar with Russell, Geir & Ann Sofie
- Adobe Conference in Seattle, with added bonus of seeing my mom, Becky and my friend Chuck and his wife Julie Kae
- Martin celebrating his 1-year anniversary with Malachi
- Martin finding an apartment in downtown Detroit
- A week in the Netherlands with my brother and his family
- Karin starting her college career with a course in Malmö
- Joining a choir again
- Bedroom and bedroom closet renovation
- Martin getting a job!
Best Books of 2019 (in no particular order and not including re-reads)
- Nothing to See Here by Kevin Watson
- The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
- The Expanse by James S.A. Corey
- America For Beginners by Leah Franqui
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
- Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood
- Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson
- Light From Other Stars by Erika Swyler
- The Nordic Theory of Everything by Anu Partanen
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor
- The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden
Best New Artists of 2019
- Ava Max
- MUNA
- Joe & The Anchor
- Rachel Platten
- All Angels
The TV shows I've watched and enjoyed this year were: Game of Thrones, The Handmaid's Tale, His Dark Materials, Queer Eye, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Outlander, Dips, Watership Down, Call the Midwife, Russian Doll, Fleabag, Vår Tid Är Nu, Little Women, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and Love Death & Robots.
Some manageable goals for 2020
- Eat better (and less) and get a new treadmill
- Recover dining room chairs
- Put the iPad down, pick more books up
- Vacation in the US