Author’s note: I drafted this on January first on the train from Brighton back to London and I’m posting it more than a month later…from Madagascar, which will definitely be a highlight of 2025!
Tatum
Coming home from Stuart Hall; Costa Rica; Deep Creek for the Fourth of July week; Leah’s birthday party; meeting Aiden; getting into college; getting my driver’s license.
Clara
That steak I ate last night. Emins and likes. Costa Rica with Dad. South Africa.
Finn
Getting the Sunny D; going to Nationals; Costa Rica; getting the backflip; staying at John’s house for a week to be a camp coach.
Heather
Seeing our Jakarta cousins in Kraków; seeing London with Brooks; pints with Hugh and a visit to book and map store in Covent Garden, London; Tatum coming home for her senior year; Clara’s phone call from South Africa saying she wanted to go to McLean School; having all the kids in one school; walking in the beach at dawn with Noelle and Josie; going to my second-ever Pomona reunion with my mother and my daughter; Tatum’s college trip down the coast of California in February and receiving seven acceptance letters before the end of the year; having my book club friends over on our new porch with merlot and a moonrise.
Hugh
Going to Africa for the first time in 45 years; hanging out with the Tomlinsons in London; being published in the desert book anthology; getting my first short story published; meeting Saffron the cat; training secondary school teachers in Jordan.
Kevin
Clara’s successful transition into McLean; having all three kids together in a good school; getting the porch built; Finn going to Nationals; being together in Costa Rica; the immersive 1605 gunpowder plot experience in London.
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