Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2018 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2018.

2017 5 minutes, 2016 5 minutes, 2015 5 minutes, 2014 5 minutes, 2013 5 minutes, 2012 5 minutes, 2011 5 minutes, and 2010 5 minutes

• Visiting my sister in Arizona just over a month before her due date
• Visiting New York City and eating all those desserts, viewing the immersive show As She Fell, watching Max Richter, visiting Storm King, having fancy dinner with non-alcoholic pairing
• Staying in a BnB in Tahoe as we went to ski at Squaw Valley at the end of the season
• Writers Camp at Big Sur in Esalen, meeting all these people but realizing how very white it all was
• Doing hot spring one time at Esalen and deciding that truly it wasn’t for me
• Going to the Brave Magic thing at 1440 Multiversity
• Staying at Joy’s place with the family in Los Gatos and doing all the assorted things with the boys
• Playing pokemon go with Chris
• Setting up the apartment with Chris. In a better way
• Hosting not one, but two BBQs in the backyard
• Setting up the backyard for the above, particularly the jade plants and the failed things that we should have not gotten from Buy Nothing
• Watching Chris haul more things from Buy Nothing, some good (like router) and some not great (like foot spa)
• That washer/dryer discovery thing
• Attempt to do laundry at my parents’ place
• Getting my novel in progress critiqued by an editor, a real one
• Reforming my people of color writing group and actually having litcrawl
• Having a writing retreat up in Ukiah with that group and meeting great people
• Hot springs at Orr Hot Springs and that incident of dropping the car key into the water
• Letting Chris actually enjoy his time in the hot baths of the hot springs