It was a good year on Unlikely Words, no thanks to me. Looking back over my posts for the year, it’s clear I started slacking off even before I had two good excuses. I guess my New Year’s resolution is to be a less crappy blogger.

Here are some things you might have missed:

• I used the power of my blog to make fun of my wife, which is always a good time.
• I made candied kumquats, a delicious gingery beverage, and sausages.
• I lost a talented friend.
• I had one medium-interesting thought about the presidential campaign.
• I thought a bit about Rhode Island politics and policy.
• I wrote a post with the tags bush, parenting, and torture.
• I mocked a really stupid editorial in the Providence Journal about the electoral college.
• I proposed some five-star albums from the 1990s.
• And I shared some of the remarkable memorabilia from when I was born.

Many thanks are due to AC for not only keeping this blog running single-handedly, but for really taking things up a notch, traffic-wise.

Happy New Year, everyone.