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Into 2025

Sunrise on the state park trail, Jan. 2, 2025.

The hardest part of beginning in 2025 is overcoming entropy. In part, extended yet short-term separation from family contributes to it. In part, the unknowns of our politics do too. There is the warming planet, aging, pressures of a fixed income, and not enough time to do everything I want. I guess this blog post is to say I need to write through it.

I have little to say about our politics. The best advice I’ve found has been to not assume anything and wait to see how the Trump administration unfolds. With the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the president-elect is better organized than he was in 2017. The U.S. House already looks to be mass confusion. The U.S. Senate has an old guard of Republican octogenarians upon whom we count to control the reins on the president. If Grassley is any guide, I don’t hope for much. We won’t really know how things will shake out until they do.

2024 was the year I got more views on this blog than any previous year. I looked through the posts and the attraction is unclear. The post after the high school class reunion got some interest. The post about buying a saucier was popular. Most of the top posts were written in previous years. Going forward, about what should I write? These things:

  • As I write part two of my memoir, some of those chapters will find a home here. Partly this is drafting and re-drafting the narrative. Partly, if the content seems timely, it’s a way to get it out there.
  • There will likely be another high school class reunion this year. If there is, I’ll post photos from it here again.
  • 2024 was the year with the hottest global average temperature on record. As extreme weather hits locally, I expect to cover it.
  • There will be a few book reviews.
  • There is a Nov. 4, 2025 school board election. In the past, few journalists covered it, so I did. We had a couple of cycles where there was great interest in the school board election with multiple candidates. I’m not sure how that will shape up this year, but if it is interesting, I’ll cover it.

That’s all for now. It seems like another slow day in Big Grove. I hope to make the best of it.

3 replies on “Into 2025”

Hard to say this in our likely like-moods, but looking forward to reading what you put up this year. Looking forward in particular to how the “my life in short-stories” idea works out.

Covering the local things like school-board etc races may be an unmet need. There’s a local blogger here who’s a SF author but who’s filled a niche in the Twin Cities by covering things like City Council primaries/Park Board/School Board/elected judges races. Even with two remaining daily newspapers, a large public radio newsroom, and a smattering of other local endeavors, information on these races is hard to find.

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Thanks for the comments, Frank. The only local issues I’m interested in covering are related to the school board. I used to attend and cover school board meetings for a local newspaper. They gave that up when the owners I worked for sold out to a consolidator. If there is a race in the school board election, I’ll do old-style journalism. Last school board election there were two candidates for two positions, so I took a pass. Because no one else is covering school board, I got a lot of views on those posts. Thanks for reading.

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