The day this post was written for is Boxing Day. One of my posts on my first blog (now inactive) was for Boxing Day. Although I hadn’t as many readers then, it seemed to be appreciated.

Have you ever woken up knowing the answer to something that had been bothering you? I can remember one Easter Sunday at a time in the 1980s when I wasn’t going to church, when I woke up knowing the answer to a technical problem that I hadn’t previously solved for a machine knitting project.

More recently (at the end of November) I woke up with ideas for blog posts for the next few weeks and with a word, which is #MyOneWord for 2025. It is consolidate.

I have been blogging for over twelve years. The total posts on my three blogs, Sue’s considered trifles (328), Sue’s Trifles (1204) and Sue’s words and pictures (596) number more than 2000 in total, but they are just blog posts. I have also written for More than Writers (see my What’s New? Page for links to these). Many of my poems have appeared on my blogs, but I have others, which have not. To keep track of which have been published and which have not, I have a spreadsheet listing 315 poems. Of course, some are better than others. The memoir that I began writing long before I started blogging is still unfinished. For about two years I spent time researching my family tree online. Making a story from my raw research might be a project for which consolidate is a good word. My previous words for the year appear here. Consolidate includes 5 letters from Healing: A,E,I,L,N, which continues the trend for other words I have chosen.

Starting new projects, responding to challenges, and helping other writers in various ways are some of the things which tend to distract me from consolidating what I have already done. I am fortunate in having supportive writing friends. We help one another.

In 2024 I had a poem published in Christian Writer, the magazine of the Association of Christian Writers. Several of my Climericks appeared on the Eco-verses blog. I also wrote some posts for More than Writers as a reserve blogger.

This year I left X (formerly Twitter), but I used Goodreads more. I’d welcome more interactions on Goodreads. I read or listened to more books than I told Goodreads about! I have very recently joined bluesky, where my username is very similar to the one I had on Twitter. It would be good to reconnect with previous followers there.

What can you expect to see on Sue’s Trifles in 2025?

There are likely to be book reviews, reflective posts similar to this one and possibly some poems. I may blog from A to Z in April, although I hadn’t thought of doing so until a few days ago. There may also be some posts about events I have attended.

Meanwhile thank you for reading and I wish you all a peaceful New Year.