Tiny things that feel big.

A week full of glimmers.

On this week’s episode of Bad on Paper, I declared that December is going to be my best month of 2023. If you didn’t listen, the episode was a fun one, all about our best everything of 2023 – best days, best meals, best concerts, best movies, and so much more. Best month was one of the prompts, too, but I found myself struggling to pick one. So much of this year has felt like trying to move forward amidst change and hitting a wall, or slamming against it full speed. Sometimes the wall was work or anxiety, other times it was loss and grief. It’s not that every month was bad, or that the good stuff didn’t come, too. Of course it did. And I’ve had tough years before this one, too. But this was the first year in a long time when I felt unsteady through it all.

You know that feeling when you do pilates for the first time, or try to stand on a surfboard or a skateboard and your body is like — what the fuck are you trying to do to me? Your abs are like, “Wait, wait, wait… this isn’t what we …