A faint crescent moon in a blue skyEd. note: Now, even more than last year, it’s easy to believe that literally every single thing on this earth is broken, awful, and/or doomed. But it’s not true. Some things (not all, but some!) are good. Here are a few of the things that gave us hope, lifted our spirits, and gave us a more realistic—that is, marginally less doomy—perspective.| The Last Word On Nothing
Jenny: It’s the first full year without my dad, which makes my heart hurt. And then one of my dogs, Geddy, goes and dies. Well, he got hurt first, and there was a lot of pain, and he was kind of old and not a great candidate for surgery, and we tried to manage his pain but it didn’t work, and we had to make one of those horrible decisions. So my heart hurts even more than it did. My dad always used to ask about my dogs. That was really the only line between them. But he knew how much I ...| The Last Word On Nothing