Executive Summary: Oh, boy. I don't think I can describe the year 2020 with any particular grace. I'm just glad and grateful and lucky and privileged to still be alive and basically fine at this point. Love to you and yours. --Sooze, Portland, June, 2021. The Stuff of 2020 I lived in Berkeley through May, … Continue reading The Wrap on 2020 →

Executive Summary: A return to this project, because I finally have a bit of time. In this installment, I will focus on the narrow scope of my own life in 2019 (likely a year none of us remembers at all!) So, enjoy this, whilst sequestered in your home, enduring the intensity of the ongoing pandemic, … Continue reading The Wrap on 2019 →

Executive summary: Happy 2019, everyone! Please enjoy this long-winded foray into my year 2018, in review. Retro-entries will be back soon, resuming with 2007.  —Sooze, Oakland, 2019 Preamble 2018. The year I realized that time is moving faster than ever, but I care less and less about the glacial pace of my progress. I'll get there. … Continue reading The Wrap on 2018 →

(Originally published Saturday, February 10, 2007, elsewhere-net) Executive summary on life at this time: Age 34. Made it official with Amber; continued working on an unfinished screenplay, got into grad school to become a psychotherapist, and got yelled at in a movie theater for daring to think that Darren Aronofsky is pretentious. —Sooze, Oakland, 2018 … Continue reading The Wrap on 2006 →

(Originally published April 23, 2006, elsewhere-net) Executive summary of life at this time: Age 33. Year 5 living in TriBeSa; a new world of being single and actively polyamorous was opening up (rather than the half-hearted attempts I'd made before); I started to dip my toe into creative and professional pursuits that might someday deliver … Continue reading The Wrap on 2005 →

(Originally published February 08, 2005, elsewhere-net) Executive summary of life at this time: Age 32. I still lived in TriBeSa; this was my last year with J.; I ended my job at the printing shop, and continued working as a bookkeeping contractor, but was starting to feel the itch to do something different... —Sooze, Oakland, 2018 … Continue reading The wrap on 2004 →

(Originally published January 06, 2004, elsewhere-net.) Executive summary of life at this time: Age 31. I was still bookkeeping at the printing shop in the Mission, before launching my contract-basis bookkeeping biz; I was still partnered with J.; I was living in TriBeSa; GWB's post-September 11 Iraq war was in progress; movies were still rented at … Continue reading The Wrap on 2003 →

Preamble 2017 was a rough year. The buzz of anxiety and the pall of depression ushered in by the upsetting U.S. presidential election, and then, the inauguration, of that shame-inducing ignoramus really set the tone for the year, for us collectively, I think. The havoc of the hurricanes, the fires throughout the western states producing … Continue reading The Wrap on 2017 →