By summer, we were developing a new way of life, isolating amid the pandemic, managing with outside visits, and I wish we’d known what a luxury that was. The hindsight of a full year is seldom a solace, though we will attempt to make the most of it, learning the lessons we needed to learn, adjusting and modifying and evolving for a new world. As we close out this calendar year on the blog, I wish you and your family peace and health and happiness.
July 2020 – The height of summer found the best pool weather we’ve ever had – day after day of sun and heat, perfectly consistent and unending – as was the continued closure of our pool. We could only find respite in the shaded parts of the garden.
The saddest photos of the summer.
A shirtless, and waterless, recap.
It was a summer of anti-racist reckoning, and the work continues.
Andy and I celebrated our 20th anniversary of being together.
A look back at two decades of companionship and love.
Taylor Swift provided the fittingly low-key soundtrack to the heat of summer.
Another sad loss in 2020 – our friend Eric.
August 2020 – Continuing the stretch of sunny weather at odds with emotions and the state of the world, August brought forth somber beauty and quiet mornings.
It also brought our pool back from the brink!
Turning 45 years old in fine and fabulous fashion.
September 2020 – On the first day of the month, this recap signaled for me to pause.
My amazing father turned 90 years old.
And just like that, fall arrived in fanfare and glory.
A rabbit’s hole of recaps, all of which are worth exploring.
October 2020 – The spooky season was at hand.
A rocky recap filled with fuckery.
On the day we celebrate a cultural genocide.
Maintaining mindfulness amid the madness of 2020.
Wrinkled low-hangers and sexual reconciliations informed this recap.
My first full-year of not drinking alcohol.
November 2020 – It began with a finale.
The world turned upside down and this recap did little to fix it.
Trump lost the Presidential election more than any other loser in history.
Before the holiday mayhem ensues, a look back.
A proper Thanksgiving scandal.
That for which I am the most thankful.
December 2020 – And so we reach the end of another year that could not end soon enough. Glimmers of light and hope flickered through the darkness.
Beneath a mystical moon for a few minutes.
This year’s holiday card, with special guest appearances by Mom and Dad.
As with much of the year, the Holiday Stroll in Boston was canceled. Or was it…?
A high school holiday memory fueled by Bette Midler.
Bending time and space, we managed to make The Holiday Stroll 2020 happen after all.
Thus ends the year, just in the nick of time. Not going to say it can’t get worse because we all know it can. But I hold hope for something better… Happy New Year to you and yours! Let’s meet back here tomorrow for a fresh start.
