Only two more years to cover before Wednesday’s big anniversary.
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Otherstream at 20: 2013
Despite an incredibly depressing start, 2013 turned out to be a really good year for me. I relocated to the house where I grew up, traveled a lot, and started having the slightest hint a social life again (which is about all I’ve ever really been able to stand anyway). And then there were the antidepressants–both the pills (which helped a LOT) and the cat with whom I had a brief relationship (which helped more than I might have thought as well). Music was a big help too.
The web stuff was maybe not some of my best ever, but that’s OK. Feeling like a human being again was nice.
- I do not have a cat
- Au Canada (several posts follow)
Otherstream at 20: 2012
Let’s just say I visited some very dark places in 2012. I’d love to say I handled it with my usual good humor, but that might be a stretch. Maybe the best thing to say is that I lived through it. And lost weight. What i really hate is that the big entries on the site stopped being about anything other than me. The big anniversary comes on Wednesday.
- North of the border
- Canada, urbanism, etc.
- Traditional, biblical marriage
- I don’t want to while, but..
- A dad I never met
- West Coast trip begins (several posts follow)
- US Tour 1997 (in which I posted edited 15-year-old video, several posts follow)
- DC, Labor Day
- Work and vacations
- Thinking out loud on a Sunday afternoon
- On the road. Really. (several posts follow)
- Charlotte sometimes
- Perfect beach weather (several posts follow)
Otherstream at 20: 2011
I thought this one was going to be harder to put together than it actually was. which says, I guess, that I’m finally over the worst year of my life. Or that I’ve gotten better at ignoring it. Or something.
In 2011, I lost two of the most important people in my life. Neither of them actually went away; they both just changed in ways that drastically altered our relationships. My ex and I split up after almost ten years, and my mom developed dementia. I’m not sure the website ever quite reflected how devastating this was to me. I actually wrote more about the latter than the former, but that doesn’t necessarily correlate with the proportionate effect of each. Sharing specific details about the breakup didn’t really seem fair or appropriate, although it is possible to read between the lines de temps en temps.
Despite everything, I was very successful at establishing my new career during 2011, and my October trip to Canada (the start of a new tradition) resulted in a lot of positive changes for me, not the least of which was the fact that i started listening to lots of new music again.
For the record, some of these posts were made public after the fact and did not originally appear in this same order (basically I “sneaked” them in retrospectively) so regular readers may have missed them.
- Danny Elfman, 1 October 1983 (inside joke)
- Dating? You’re joking, right?
- Updates
- Season premiere (the linked page that this teases is one of my favorites)
- October
- October II
- The great Canadian road trip of 2011 (several posts follow)
Otherstream at 20: 2009
In 2009, I got my master’s, got my first professional library job, thought a lot about cities, and bought a house in Pittsburgh. It was perhaps a more interesting year than I gave it credit for at the time. Anniversary in six days. Highlights from 2009 below.