Since I started this blog some three years ago, I have shared 1,916 posts with you (1,917 including this one). It started out as a sort of autobiographical travelog of the more adventurous years of my life, and morphed into a conglomeration of topics from world events, to memories of my childhood, to a mischievous sea otter named Laverna.

Always on the search for something new, I’ve decided to usher in 2026 with a New Year’s Day retrospective of my posts of the past year — not all of them, certainly, but a couple of the highlights from each month — as a reminder of what we have all experienced, and somehow survived, over the past 52 weeks.

So that’s what I’ll be working on for the next few days, in addition to keeping abreast of the daily news. Wish me luck . . . there’s a lot of material to go through. (Not nearly as much, of course, as the Epstein files; but at least I don’t have to deal with all the redactions.)

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
12/27/25