The astute among you may have noticed that it’s been a looooong time – nearly a year – since my last post, about Kate’s Lists. This wasn’t intentional; as the cliché goes, life happened.

As I ease my way back into the blog, thought I’d start by sharing some brief highlights from the last year… somewhat out of order, but in list form, naturally.

• Hiked(ish) Machu Picchu
• Walked along what’s left of the Berlin Wall, now an open-air art gallery
• Finally got over a slow-motion heartbreak
• Hiked on Mount-Royal a bunch
• Meditated a bunch
• Completed a scarf I’d begun knitting in 2015 – or rather, found a Scarf Fairy to take it over the finish line for me
• Swam in the ocean “with” sea lions
• Enjoyed many brunches, tea parties, and other yummy meals with lovely friends
• Navigated a little of Japan by myself (with a little lot of help from GPS)
• Had a small surgery on my foot
• Switched roles at work after 12 years as a Happiness Engineer
• Spoke at my first WordCamp since 2018
• Rediscovered the fun of badminton
• Found another needle in the haystack and fell in love again… with another listmaker, of course.