That's it
It’s expected that one does an annual summing up at this point. Significant things that have happened in the past year and all that. The hitch is when you hit what I have decided (with apologies to Richard Ford for cribbing the Frank Bascombe life-as-phases concept) is the Reductive Phase of life any annual report of Important Things will be overwhelmingly negative. See, the Reductive Phase of life is when you hit that age where you know each successive year will end with you sharing this plane of existence with fewer and fewer loved ones. When you’re child-free you tend to hit this phase a little earlier since you’re never going to gain sons/daughters in law or grandchildren. You’re just going to spend every year saying goodbye to friends and family both dear and distant until it’s your turn. Nothing to be done about it, you just have to make sure you’re having the best time you can with the time you have. So, like every previous entry her...
