Wishing you wonderful holidays and the very best in 2024!
Wishing you wonderful holidays and the very best in 2024!
We renewed our passports and are ready for whatever comes next.
JADEN: 7th grade flag football team won the Battle of Berkeley.
2024: iPhone? NFL?
SHAYLA: Girls’ high school flag football league champs.
2024: driver’s license, college applications.
JAY: Re-retired from UC Berkeley, broke out and read some fiction with his histories.
2024: Good question!
DAVID: Started a new decade, learned to wear pink.
2024: Hoping for deep acceptance of what is.
Here are some of our favorites from 2023, reading, watching, and photos:
JAY’S READING
Gore Vidal’s Empire cycle: Burr, 1876, Empire, Hollywood, The Golden Age
Thomas Mallon’s Washington DC Cycle: Fellow Travelers, Watergate, Finale, Landfall
The World as it Is
Obama: The Call of History
Everything is Illuminated
Underworld
Jon Meacham’s Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson
DAVID’S READING
Happy-Go-Lucky
Small Mercies
The Lincoln Highway
Horse
Tom Lake
Crook Manifesto
The Librarianist
The Fraud
Mercury Pictures Presents
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
FILM
Barbie
Asteroid City
Empire of Light
Aftersun
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Living
The Fablemans
IN PERSON:
The Avett Brothers, Noah Reid, Sigur Ros, John Cameron Mitchell
& Amber Martin
SERIES
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Tiny Beautiful Things
Sex Education
The Diplomat
Somebody, Somewhere
Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music
Never Have I Ever
The Bear
Good Omens
