Got out of retail and landed a gig at a major, respectable law firm in center city. Major win.

This was our first year in Philly after my wife and I left Arizona. We have loved it here. There have been a few bumps, but overall it has been wonderful. The people are great (yes, really. The whole kind but not nice thing is true in my experience), having so many options of things to do is wonderful, and having actual seasons instead of slightly different shades of brown is amazing.

It was good and bad. Personally, I met some long dreamed of financial and career goals. But, other people in my life that are close to me suffered incredible loss, and that hurts too. I’m also getting older and the mortality of my parents and older family members is ever present on my mind.

You’ll understandably get a lot of anecdotes, but it was solid for me. First full year of marriage after a covid-delayed wedding, got a promotion, made a more concerted effort to make/keep friendships in my 30s, started learning how to play bass, began life-changing treatment for a severe sleep apnea diagnosis, donated marrow to someone with leukemia who’s still alive…it wasn’t bad.

I have to stop thinking that life will return to pre-Covid times and learn to live differently. I used to be a part of a large friend group and that sorta melted away. So, this year felt lonely as fuck. I expected it to return but everyone had moved on.

Worst year of my life so far.

At least 4 suicides in my circle of friends/acquaintances, and that wasn’t even the worst part.

Fuck 2022. Just hoping it wasn’t a good year compared to 2023 🥸

Wild. Broke off an engagement but really found myself in the experience. I'm pretty happy now. Career has been going well. Cut out some toxic friends and made some new ones.

Ran the Philly marathon with some friends. Still got the bummed knee to prove it. Long time goal of mine, and happy to check that off the list. Was cold as hell, but won’t completely rule out doing it again. Oh, also closed out the year having our second child on 12/30. 2 girls under 2 years of age. I am a blessed man. But also a man in deep, deep, trouble.

2020, 2021, and 2022 have been completely awful for me.

Highs and weird lows. Had my first full year at a new job with a great company, bought a house, visited Mexico and Montana, had a blast of a summer with a really fun social circle.

But for the first time I’m seeing signs of depression in myself. Maybe it’s the seasonal thing, but the past few months I’ve felt no inspiration, no urge to build on or create hobbies, and an overwhelming sense of passiveness. Feels like I spend 80% of my day aimlessly staring at my phone. I’ve got ideas on how to turn things around in 2023, but I’m finding it so easy to fall back into old unproductive patterns

Officially a year I’m center city in my new apartment. I’ve lost some friends but gained some really good ones as well. Got out of a 4 year long relationship and pursuing my bachelor’s degree. Not a bad or good year, just another year in my life 🤷🏻‍♀️

I'm in semi-retirement, so I have a lot of time. I started taking daily hour-long walks in my neighborhood this year.

I'm amazed by the doorstep gardens I see. Even without many trees, South Philly is verdant. The parks all have their own personalities and I'm learning to appreciate them.

I can honestly say this was the happiest year of my life until 2 weeks ago today when our family lost a member suddenly at the age of 59. It is especially tragic since his spouse lost her first husband 18 years ago to a heart attack at age 47. Life can really hand out the sucker punches sometimes. Not even sure how to feel about 2023 now.

Way better than expected

pretty good :)

super poo poo

It “feels” like it’s been a bad year, but upon taking stock, it’s been pretty good. I had planned to retire in 2020, but that didn’t happen. I officially retired this year, with the option to teach a class here and there if I choose. I went from living 9 months of the year in Philly, and 3 months in Manteo, NC, to pretty much being full-time in Manteo now (although I’m writing this from my place in Philly). My kids both hit important milestones in their lives/careers and for the first time I feel like they can have pretty fulfilling lives at this point without any further financial support from me. I think I’ll continue to come back here on a regular basis because there are still so many things I love about the city…..mostly the food and drinks, the cultural communities, and just being able to walk around and see so many interesting things. I don’t miss Dodge Chargers and ATVs doing donuts on Delaware Ave.

I wanna say yay, although I'm not sure why really. And come to think of it, I don't remember there being any nay years for me lately. Maybe I'm just a retrospective optimist.

2022 was a good year for my family. My health improved after a crappy 2021, my husband got a promotion and pay raise, both my kids are academically caught up after a SNAFU a few years ago, and our first year with two teenagers we can have real discussions with has been great. I’m really hoping this is something we can build on in 2023.

Ran over by a car-wreck in progress while on the sidewalk in university city, broad daylight, breaking both legs, destroying my parked ebike, and causing my phone and wallet to go missing at the same time too, 0/10 would not recommend 2022 in philly for me .

Pretty good for me. I got my job back as a library assistant, I'm getting my Master's degree in Library Science in a few weeks, and I'm currently in the hiring process of becoming a full-time librarian.

So basically, I'm just about to take the biggest step in my life and career at this point, so it is very exciting for me.

Not great, not terrible. I didn’t make any moves forward in my job, my dad has been sick and in and out of the hospital for the better part of half a year, but I had some ups too. Visited two new places in 2022: Virginia Beach as well as my first ever international trip to Ireland. While I don’t love my job I made a better effort to know my coworkers, which I think improved my likability. I got into photography as a hobby and bettered my cooking skills.

So it was alright and I’m going into 2023 with as positive a mood as I can, considering this exact scenario outside is my mortal enemy and I hate it.

I have also still managed to avoid Covid. Keeping that good energy into the new year.

I started the year in a catering job that got increasingly worse and then found a job working in a small byob that unfortunately closed in November. I'm now working at a hotel that pays well and has benefits and pretty set schedules.

Phillies in the World Series? Birds currently the best team in the NFL? We avoided Dr. New Jersey becoming our senator? Relatively good year for the city imo

Personally? Not so bad, but also not the greatest. Mental health improved overall, but I'm becoming increasingly aware of my body decaying as I get older. Though expectations for 2023 are bottomed out since last time I had my hopes up for a year (2020) the world went to shit

a mixed bag as any year might be, but overall very positive and eventful. my wife's grandmother, who she was very close with, passed away at the beginning of the year (around her birthday no less) and that was a hard moment in time. though many positive events throughout the year made it a very memorable one (including finally getting to celebrate our wedding day and take a real honeymoon which we've been waiting 2.5 years to do). got a new, better job as well after a lot of stress and uncertainty.

my dad is also still with us despite a lot of medical setbacks this year so feeling grateful for that. still though, something pervasively gloomy is hanging over 2022. it's likely most to do with the economy and the weight of inflation. maybe something also to do with the run up to the midterm elections, though good mostly prevailed in the face of evil. we should be thankful for that.

in april i casually signed up for strava since a buddy of mine mentioned they were getting into cycling and tracked their rides that way. i didn't think much of it at the time, but have to say that randomly checking the site today and seeing that i biked over 700mi in 8 months brought on a big sense of accomplishment this morning. as someone who always wanted to be in the habit of exercising but would fall off for months at a time, the combined number of activities and hours spent cycling, even if inconsistent at times, felt good to see. looking forward to exceeding those numbers in the coming year.

Best of times, worst of times: my so graduated college; we had to say goodbye to the dog he grew up with. Life is like that.

fucking weird

More than Solid.

Graduated from Uni, landed a crazy paying job out of school, Moved out, watched my mother get married (never too late!), traveled a good amount, and launched a few business ideas.

i had a good year despite working on the night shift basically all year, which i despised. i’m allowed to go back to day shift starting mid january. i got to go to game 3 of the NLDS and i won diamond club tickets to game 5 of the world series. i completed another year of school and am pretty close to getting my associates degree. and my brother and his GF welcomed the most adorable baby boy in august and i love him so much. i have almost reached my goal of reading 25 books…i hope to before midnight!

I’m done with it

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Uneventful. Nothing bad happened, nothing good happened. A completely unmemorable year.

I failed to meet one or two personal goals, but had some satisfying professional success, was lucky that my new manager is somebody whom I was able to develop a good relationship with, continued to never contract Covid-19 and received a nice pay raise to end the year. Meanwhile, the city, although still beset by problems and burdened with a worse-than-useless political class, is far from the emptied-out Hellscape that I had feared during lockdown that it would become and every day that passed meant that there were fewer days remaining in Mayor Kenney's tenure, which is an accumulation of blessings.

So, although I am melancholy by nature, I think that it went pretty well from where I'm standing.

I came here from Mobile, AL. Quite a change! I love love love Alabama/Mississippi and Louisiana with all my heart. But I love it here. Always something to do or something cool to see.

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This was my most stagnant year.

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