December 27, 2025
Reading my 2024 retrospective was a little depressing, yet I’m happy to report that despite this year having its challenges, they were nothing like last year. What an amazing way to feel gratitude… remembering the things you’ve gone through and seeing that …
December 26, 2024
After recently reading my 2023 retrospective, I’ve come to the conclusion that as we age, things just get harder. 2024 was a brutal year. It was busy, stressful, and sad. In a lot of ways it was still a good year and by no means am I ungrateful. A lot was accomplished at …
December 26, 2023
It’s the end of 2023 and, as is my custom, I always read my retrospective from the prior year. And… umm… 2023 was not better than 2022. Well, in some ways perhaps but in many ways it was not what I was hoping it would be. But, I’m resolved to look on …
December 28, 2022
Well, here we are at the end of 2022 and frankly, I’m hoping 2023 will be better. Is it just me or do things seem to continue getting worse? The economic uncertainty, war, inept governments, broken medical systems, intolerance across the board, and everyone seeming angry …
January 3, 2022
I think, like many people, I did not expect to be writing this at the end of 2021 and still be in the COVID-19 pandemic. Simply to get it out of the way because COVID certainly wasn’t the most exciting thing this year, the entire family got COVID in the summer. It wasn’t …
March 6, 2021
It’s taken me some time to even get to the place where I wanted to stop and think about 2020. We’re just over 2 months into 2021 and I’ve been thinking about writing this since December, but between being plain old tired (physically and mentally) and being …
January 2, 2020
I’ve enjoyed reading (and writing) these annual retrospectives. This will be the fourth that I’ve written. There are two recurring themes I read from the past retrospectives: tough and hope. Life is tough – be that in work or personal life. But there is hope. …
December 28, 2018
As I sit here taking my first real break of the year, suffering with fever, chills and a ridiculously stuffy nose that has lasted since before the holidays began, I turn once again to a retrospective of 2018 after reading the one I wrote last year. Once again, life provided no …
December 30, 2017
Last year I wrote a retrospective and was interesting to read it at the end of this year so I’ve decided to do it again. What can I say about 2017? From a work perspective, this was a crazy year. The vulnerabilities we had to deal with this year were pretty significant, …
December 30, 2016
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about this past year and all of its challenges and accomplishments, the moments of growth and clarity, the opportunities taken and the opportunities missed. I’m not one to get deeply personal in public, and won’t get …