All The Good Things We Did This Year

Starting with taking ourselves seriously

Hi friends.

I went to a holiday party last night and there were these really good holiday cookies and I had too many of them. And yes, by “cookies” I also mean “wine.” But really I want to talk to you about the cookies.

They were buttery cookies, shaped like Christmas trees, with a fine layer of soft green frosting, and the cookies were so thin it felt like eating nothing at all, and so I had more than a few of them and even walked out of the party with a cookie for the ride home, they were that good. And then last night, all night, I had wild sugary dreams.

When I woke up this morning I was having all these visions about my narrator but they were hazy and they kept fading in and out. A part of my brain just wanted to keep focusing on her. I wanted something firm to land on, I wanted her to arrive somewhere new. This is my job, I thought. For a moment, I took myself seriously.

A good, solid feeling: to take yourself seriously.