Welcome to another installment of ‘Maybe This Year Will Be Better’

A tidy workspace featuring a 2026 planner, spiral notebook, white pencil, glasses, and a cup of coffee on a warm wooden desk, suggesting planning, focus, and productive mornings.

Published January 1, 2026

There’s a planner and a pen and some coffee and a plant and reading glasses. And blank pages. Seems so simple to map it all out, right?

Ha.

I’m done with 2025. Pieces of it remain on this website, and some of those will be gone soon, but the puzzle won’t make a lot of sense anymore. Let’s move on.

If you are watching “Pluribus,” styled as “Plur1bus,” you can maybe figure out what parts of it feel spookily like my existence. I’m not going to connect the dots for you. You wouldn’t believe me anyway. Few people seem to sometimes.

Still, I’m sharing this because it hit hard.

I hope you have success designing your 2026.

If I think of what tags to add to this post, I will. Right now it’s simply what it is.

Sending love. Protect your peace.


Featured image by Anikona Ann via Shutterstock.

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