4.1/365: Day One and 20 Things That Kept Me Going in 2020

For new readers, 4.1/365 references the fourth year of blogging every day of the year. This being the first day of 365 days of 2021. I vow to write more this year. Having a new MacBook will help because my old one was ancient and I was blogging on the WordPress app, which is pretty awful. Y’all just don’t know. It takes four different taps to add a photo to a post.

As we’re saying goodbye to what all of us can agree was a truly terrible year, I thought I would blog 2020 things that kept me going in 2020.

1. The resiliency of my children.
2. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
3. Novels by Lisa Jewell.
4. The 80s cover songs playlist from indie bands.
5. Sarcasm.
6. Spotify.
7. Ben Folds’ autobiography, A Dream About Lightning Bugs.
8. A Facebook group I’m in of supportive friends.
9. The podcasts RU Talkin’ R.E.M. Re: Me? and Pod Save America. Also, Conan Needs a Friend.
10. My son’s love of music.
11. The Queen’s Gambit.
12. The poetry of Cleo Wade.
13. Martha Stewart Living magazine. Yes, a real magazine, not a website to scroll through — a tangible magazine.
14. Introducing my oldest child to The Blues Brothers.
15. Finding what may be the perfect pen.
16. Voting.
17. Unsubscribing from emails.
18. Rewatching Grey’s Anatomy and Mad Men.
19. My results of middle child’s baking.
20. Praying.