Dear 2021,
I hope that we can be friends.
I was trying to come up with something clever to say about the past year, but hell, y’all, what is there to say that hasn’t been said.
I didn’t learn a new language or become a guitar virtuoso. I baked not one loaf of sourdough bread. My book is still unfinished. And, my home remains a place where plants go to die. I miss hugs from my friends and my family so damn much. I celebrated Christmas with my in-laws at a rest stop – while wearing a mask.
However, it wasn’t all bad. Although there are days when I am certain that my daughter says 7,490,826 words to me, I will always be happy that we got to spend so much extra time together. She makes me belly laugh every day.
My husband and I may have plotted each other’s “disappearances” a time or two over the past nine months, we’ve also gotten to be even better friends. We’ve been each other’s support system during the ebb and flows of our sanity.
And, folks, I can’t lie, in many ways, I am built for that quarantine life. I am indoorsy. And, as such, this time period has provided me with time to indulge in some of my favorite hobbies: books, TV, movies and podcasts:
Top 5 Books Of 2020 (Read In):
Valentine – Elizabeth Wetmore
The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead
Transcendent Kingdom – Yaa Gyasi
Betty – Tiffany McDaniel
The Vanishing Half – Britt Bennett
Honorable Mentions:
Nothing to See Here – Kevin Wilson
Daisy Jones & The Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid
Dear Edward – Ann Napolitano
Top 5 TV Shows of 2020:
The Queen’s Gambit – Netflix
Schitt’s Creek – Netflix
Perry Mason – HBO
The Mandolorian – Disney+
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark – HBO
Top 5 Movies of 2020:
Hamilton
The Old Guard
Just Mercy
Class Action Park
My Darling Vivian
Top 5 Podcasts Listened to in 2020:
My Favorite Murder
Appalachian Mysteria
Ear Hustle
Criminal
That’s Messed Up: An SVU Podcast
Soshally Awkward
Sosha Lewis is a writer whose work has been featured in The Washington Post, Huffington Post, MUTHA Magazine and The Charlotte Observer. She writes about her sometimes wild, sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking past filled with free-lunches, a grimy sports bar, a six foot tall Albino woman who tried to save her teenage soul, felonious, drug addicted parents, an imaginary friend named Blueberry and growing up nestled in the coal-dusted mountains of West Virginia.
