week fifty

Every year ended with lists in my mom’s People Magazine.

All the top movies and TV shows,

the most beautiful celebrity couples, the songs we couldn’t get our of our heads.

Pop culture moments ranked best and worst. I’d flip through the magazine and think:

this was a good year.

In 2025, a middle-aged list goes something like this:

-Top 5 hormonal headaches

-Number of supplements taken

-Doctor’s appointments, ranked best to worst

-How many mass shootings can you remember?

And:

-Books read, playlists created, restaurants tried, beaches swept for seaglass, road trips taken, card games played, poems written, memories lost and gained.

Still I think, this was a good year.