I don’t know about you guys but for me 2025 has been a hell of a year. I lost my mother and my two dogs within weeks of each other. I moved 1200 miles away to a new state, started a new job, and in a few more days will have bought a new house for Mrs. SoulDoc to turn into a home in ways only she can.

I could go on an on about the personal changes in my life, and I suspect many of us can, but let’s not forget the changes happening outside of my own little bubble….

My country elected a moron to the most powerful seat in the nation and he did exactly what those of us suffering with the Woke Mind Virus said he would do: undermine democracy at every turn.

The stock market has apparently been turned into the pump and dump machine the oligarchy always wanted it to be….

The trade war started by this same person is already negatively impacting our nation and our economy in significant ways…

The illegal arrests and deportations began in unrest to include US citizens and even though multiple courts, including the Supreme Court, have ruled these things must stop and citizens must be brought back, the current administration has refused to abide by these rulings……

In so many ways my country, the very same I swore an oath to defend, has (as my grandmother would tell you) gone to Hell in a hand basket.

Yet amidst all that controversy, turmoil, and pain we carry on, don’t we?

You and I, those who must continue to go to work and the grocery store, and school, and take care of our families and who don’t have enough money or time to just sit around bitching about things on the internet, we do what we have always done. We shake our heads in disbelief and mutter or curse under our breath while secretly hoping these horrible things don’t start hitting too close to home.

I’m not sure these things will stay distant this time around, but I am above all else an optimist full of hope. I am not, however, so optimistic that things will change on their own, but I know that I cannot change other people. I can only change me and that is exactly what I intend to do not just with this year, but with every year I have left.

Some of those changes will be seen on these pages. I have amassed a bit of a following here, and my next post will be directly addressing that, but this blog is still not achieving the things I set out to achieve. Not yet anyway.

So some of the first changes I will be making is in what and how I post on this blog. It turns out the SEO (search engine optimization) of my blog is, to put it mildly, shit. So I will be changing some of those things that need to be changed so that these pages can be more easily discovered by more people. I will not be charging readers for things because that is not who I am and not at all what I created this blog for. I will be attempting to incorporate some of the suggestions into my format for this blog and my next post reflects that.

Hopefully as I work on this book my writing will also improve by I’m not making any promises there.

I’m not trying to become an influencer, whatever that is, or the next big thing on the internet, but I want to expand my writing here and see where it takes us. I still only have the roughest of plans for this thing but I am working on it.

Mostly I think the theme of this post is to publicly declare what I believe Danny Devito’s character in Always Sunny in Philadelphia once said….

genius

and of course the haikus will continue