It seemed so simple. All we wanted from 2013 was a better, easier year than the one before. 2012 was marked with stress arising from the election, extended family tensions, health concerns, and other matters. Surely 2013 would be better.
But the year began badly, marked by events we couldn’t have foreseen, with effects on us and others that continue.
We are strong. We go on. And even with such a rough start, we succeeded in our modest hopes. It was, in fact, a very good year.
Neither of us are especially nostalgic, eschewing all the year-end reviews that mark the end of December. This year, however, we write our own.
Though stunned from the beginning, we quickly turned focus to upcoming celebrations. Our son graduated in mid-May with his master’s in mechanical engineering. The next day he commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. And…
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