No. 250: ANNUS HORRIBILIS IN REVIEW / Not exactly a best-of.

I'm trying to lower the bar here, but loyal readers can reasonably ask: "Isn't it low enough already?"

For once the planning worked out. I wanted to end 2024 on a nice number, one appropriate for a retrospective, and 250 certainly ranks as such. Ideally, 1001 would have been great—that would be a fitting endpoint and I’ll keep it under consideration.

A ten-best would be asking way too much of the reader—I’d be happy if you went back to just one of these pieces listed for rereading and reconsideration. Oh yeah, I don’t know that on further review I could find ten that qualified as best-worthy or even better than average.