Journal

It’s been two long years since I’ve sat at this table overlooking the Atlantic coast. Well, this is actually a new table, as our beach house was renovated some time during the pandemic. I say our beach house like it’s actually ours, we’ve just been here so many times that it feels like its ours. Every year since I’ve known my wife,

I turned 40 years old this year, and if I’m being honest it kinda feels like the walls are closing in on me. I come from a family tree that leans toward a sedentary lifestyle with a litany of potential medical dramas lurking around the corner of each new and passing year.

Well today is the first day of 2021, and if I’m being honest I have mixed feelings about the coming year. One can only hope that it will be better than the last, but then there’s really no way to tell.