Okay, so this particular blog post is a few weeks overdue. I had planned to look back on the year that was and look ahead to 2026. I had a full outline and everything. Then life happened this last month and, frankly, the last thing I ever want to think about ever again is 2025, so that into the trash that outline went.
My spouse and I had to help the sweetest fuzzy boy to ever grace this planet find rest after a prolonged battle with kidney disease. He gave us eight of the most wonderful years any creature can bestow on another and it simultaneously feels both like we were cheated and yet it was more than we could ever deserve. He was love itself wrapped in fur. He is missed and will be missed until the day I can no longer miss anything because I will cease existing.
Goodbye, Burghie, my fur-son. I am grateful for every day I was privileged to be your Cat-dad. I love you.
Honestly, the last month has felt like a year in itself and a hard year at that. I’m just going to let it and 2025 as a whole fade away and instead only remember the period for three things:
- I have an amazing spouse, partner, and friend and I could not have made it through this year, and especially these last 4 weeks, without them. I could not possibly imagine a better human companion to have by my side on life’s journey.
- I’m still proud to have released my first novel in 2025 and finally fulfill a long-delayed dream of 30+ years.
- I returned to therapy and found a therapist who’s a better fit for me. I’m very glad to have another tool in my toolbox when it comes to whatever 2026 decides to throw at me,
Speaking of 2026, I don’t make resolutions when the new year arrives. I instead prefer to set actionable goals for myself, express hopes for what’s to come, and try to have positive intentions about my actions in the new year.
My biggest goal is to complete at least one draft of something in 2026, be it novel, novella, novelette, short story… Something. Anything. 2025 was a bit of a lost year for me, writing-wise, so getting back into my writing routine and redeveloping the consistency that helped me complete Tales of a Stranger Sister will no doubt do wonders for both my mood and attitude in the upcoming year.
I hope that some of those out there who bought my first novel will read it and feel strongly enough about it to want to write a review.
As for intentions, I want to make more of an effort to take better care of the doughy meat-suit my brain dwells inside. I want to connect and reconnect with people, both friends and family as well as the communities I am part of. Lastly, I intend to try and do the most good I can, when circumstances allow for it, and accept that I cannot single-handedly fix everything, but that does not mean I cannot make some things better in some small way.
I don’t know what’s in store in the year 2026, but I hope there’s some good coming, for all of us.
And if it doesn’t come, that we make some good for each other.
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