Saying Goodbye to 2023
Thanks for spending another year with the Wickeds! Wickeds, share a memory of something good that happened to you this year.
Julie: What a great question, Sherry. For me it’s the quiet moments that were good this year. Spending precious time with family. Finding new series to enjoy. Having fun writing. Seeing the Wickeds at various times.
Jessie: I’ve had several lovely experiences this year. I went on two trips with dear friends that were enormously fun. I also got to witness one of my sons as he graduated from a program he had long dreamed of being a part of. And, I spent many hours over the summer hill walking with my youngest and often my dog, Sam. All of those opportunities led to good conversations and strengthened relationships.
Liz: I had some great experiences this year also. I got to go to San Diego twice, which was amazing, and I took a quick trip to London, visited many bookstores and saw an Agatha Christie play. I also got my first tattoo (better late than never!) and of course, got to walk on the beach every day with my dogs. I am blessed!
Barb: Bill and I had a great year. We began with our usual 3 months in Key West, followed by a fun home renovation, a solo visit from our ten-year-old granddaughter, a week at the beach, a three-week trip to France and Spain, and then having our kids, their spouses and their kids here for a terrific Thanksgiving weekend. We’re off to New York City for Christmas and then on to Key West. Happy New Year to our blog readers! I’m so looking forward to 2024.
Edith/Maddie: I’m sensing a theme here of travel and family, and I can easily chime in on that. I kicked off the year with my son John David’s Puerto Rico wedding to the talented and lovely Alexandra. Malice was great (other than passing on COVID to a couple of extended family members after the con), as was Bouchercon in San Diego. Then I launched a new series with fabulous book events in northern California along with cousin visits, all happening as I became a grandmother for the first time! I had to then head out to Phoenix to meet sweet tiny Ida Rose and hang out with her devoted parents. And I followed that trip by a pre-scheduled return to Puerto Rico to visit with John David and Alex and give my Spanish a good workout speaking with her family. Wishing happy trips and family visits in 2024 to all our wonderful readers.
Sherry: My husband retired in the summer of 2022 and we spent a lot of this year traveling. We saw family, made some new friends, and saw lots of longtime, dear friends. One of our happiest days was in Cheyenne, Wyoming where we went down memory lane of where we met, married, and lived along with seeing a friend who was with me the night I met Bob. She claims I said I’d never date him. Ha! And we also saw our maid-of-honor. We saw the beauty of mountains, plains, lakes, and oceans–all beautiful in their own ways. We ranked beaches by their walkability. We were blessed to spend that time with so many people we love.
Readers: What is something good that happened to you this year?
