As of this writing, I have 88 copies of my book left! It’s going out of print so this may truly be your last chance to get one. Grab your signed copy here and I will ship it out right away. Thank you for closing this chapter with me.

This past weekend I ran my first glaze firing in my new kiln! I tested all of my glazes on two different types of clay and also ran a new glaze color (called Sea Salt) on my first 2025 bowl. This is my third go at a ceramics practice (my first time was 2016-2017 when I took lessons at a local shop, then 2021-2022 when I got my own wheel) and I am so excited to hopefully level up in 2026.

Last week I finished Buckeye by Patrick Ryan, my book club’s January pick. It’s a sprawling story of two families that takes place in Ohio over six decades. The perspective changes and character building were masterfully done. I cried at the end, cried again telling Paul about it and immediately passed it on to my mom to read. Top ten of 2025 for me, for sure. (I have a newsletter coming next week with all my favorite books from the year.)

After a two year hiatus, I started riding our Peloton bike again in early 2024. Midway through the year I added weight training to my routine and at the end of 2024 I was surprised to see I had spent 7380 minutes engaged in Peloton classes. That felt huge! And the number motivated me to set a goal of 10K minutes in 2025.

Fast-forward to late October 2025 when I realized in order to meet my 10K goal I was going to have to spend FIFTY MINUTES A DAY in some sort of Peloton class. I had two choices: finish out the year like the first ten months and miss the goal by about 2000 minutes or decide to re-commit. In past life seasons I may have gone with the former option and that would have been fine. But in this current season? I felt like I had the bandwidth to take on the challenge.

As of this email I have 106 minutes to go and I will meet my goal tomorrow, December 31st. I didn’t do it by simply “going harder” at what I was already doing. (If I had tried to “just ride the bike more” I would have failed for sure). Instead, I added minutes by taking a stretch class after every ride. I finally tried the Peloton yoga classes — sometimes for a full 30 minutes but usually just a 10 minute one with my kids and the cats before bed. I added light weight and mobility classes to my routine. I took more low impact rides and longer cool down rides. I chipped away every day (except one!) for 61 straight days.

I share this very long story as a reminder to me (and to you!) that we are in charge of the goals we set. We can toss them out. We can decide to double down. We can adapt along the way. It’s all okay.

Paul and I have been making homemade pizza together for 18 years. We have changed our dough recipe, our toppings and our tools a lot over that time. Our most recent upgrade was to a baking steel which is exactly what it sounds like — a 15 pound(!!) piece of steel that you preheat in the oven before sliding the pizza on top. It browns the bottom and makes a perfect professional crust.

If you’ve been around awhile you know I love Olive & June nail polish. I keep track of the colors I wear throughout the year and was not surprised to see my top three in 2025 were the same as in 2024. While I wear many other colors, Pen Pal (the perfect peach), Kiss Cam (the perfect red) and Plaza (the perfect dark purple) easily could cover all four seasons for me.

I re-read The Art of Possibility these past two months. My first time through was in 2008. I remember it being a mind-blowing book for me when I was 23 and I’ll be honest, it didn’t hold up the same way at 40. However, in the last chapter, on page 174, I read this about setting goals: “[they are] not standards to live up to, but a framework of possibility to live into.” YES. Maybe this is the book that has influenced how I have thought about goal-setting for nearly two decades?! My goals don’t come from a place of “I must _____ or else” but from a place of “what if I could _____?” It’s an important distinction for me.

And before we wrap for the year, a reminder that as a paid subscriber to Scattering Seeds you have access to all the 2026 printables. This includes the Daily Goal Tracker, the 2026 month-at-a-glance calendar, the 20 reflection question page & the GIANT 2026 year-at-a-glance calendar. You can download them all here (it will ask you to log-in with your subscription email address). Thank you for supporting my work in 2025. I am so looking forward to sharing more in the new year.