New Year, same July 2025 me
January 2026 newsletter
Happy New Year, everyone!
Does anyone else remember how as the calendar year progressed, magazines used to get fatter and fatter until the huge December issue arrived in your mailbox like a small phone book, packed to the brim with gift guides and recipes and makeup tips for Christmas parties (which almost always featured a red lip and sparkly neutral eyeshadow)? And then January’s issue arrived and it was approximately the same thickness as a DMV pamphlet? This newsletter is that DMV pamphlet. Mostly because:
I am busy.
More specifically, I am busy working on my next book. I took time off around Christmas and I am struggling trying to get back on that 63,000 word horse. I know that consistency is key for me, so in a few weeks I’ll be in my proper rhythm once more. But for now, oof. Pulling teeth.
New Year’s Resolutions
I don’t have any. Not because I’m too cool for self-improvement (quite the opposite, I am a sucker for a good productivity book), but because I’ve spent the last few years learning the joys of quarterly planning and I now reevaluate my goals a few times a year. Shoot, I don’t even buy a new planner in January because I’ve stubbornly refused to give up my academic planner, which runs June-July. By the way, I highly recommend academic planners. Summer is a nice, relaxing time for a reset, and I find it’s not as pressurized as the New Year New Me rhetoric flying around in late December.
Some of my goals/plans for Q1 include:
Maintaining my exercise regimen
Watching 5 movies I’ve never seen. Interstellar, The Godfather, and Moneyball are all currently in the queue. Any other suggestions?
Planting 1 new hellebore (like the one pictured above). They are the most beautiful late winter perennials, but they’re pricy so I only treat myself to one each year.
Making pecan sticky buns
Finishing the book
See you lovely folks in February.