2022 in Review

Happy 2023!

LOOKING AHEAD

In the next couple of months, be on the lookout for:

• A rebranded newsletter
• A new sister website for theologyforeverybody.com
• The launch of my Quarterly Zine Subscription! (That’s right, they’re finally almost really here!)
• A surprise platform that will help us later…

LOOKING BACK

2022 contained the most concentrated amount of life changes my family and I have ever experienced. Thinking too hard about a year-in-review brings up lots of feelings that will take me far more than 12 months to process. All of 2022’s major events were incredibly, amazingly good. But big change is still big change, and in 2022, all the big changes happened at once. In lieu of a meaningful deep dive, here is the “short” list of what 2022 held for Madison:

1. In January, I helped my parents move my younger brother Matthew into a group home for adults with intellectual disabilities. 
2. In February, I started a new job at Catholic Theological Union.
3. In May, I wrote a piece that was quoted in an Associated Press article, which was subsequently printed in newspapers across the country.
4. In June, my youngest brother graduated from high school.
5. In July, that same brother went off to college at San Diego State University.
6. In August, I began volunteering as Editor-in-Chief of Live Today Well Co’s new VOICES e-zine, and after almost two years of grueling search, Guy finally got a new job.
7. In September, I had my bachelorette party and bridal shower (and birthday!) all in the same California weekend AND I wrote another article that was quoted in newspapers all around the country… that was a busy week.
8. In October, I got married and went on my honeymoon… that was also a busy week.
9. In November, my parents bought a new house in Lake Las Vegas, Nevada.
10. In December, I went home to California to say goodbye to the house my family has lived in for 15 years and helped start the “pitching, donating, or packing” process.

Like my favorite creative writing professor in undergrad would say, “Just another chapter for the memoir.” More like 10 chapters.

In the spirit of lists, here’s the only “wrapped” list I ever really bother to make: Top 5 Books Read in 2022 (in no particular order)

1. Any Man by Amber Tamblyn
2. All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater
3. Scythe by Neal Shusterman
4. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
5. Is This Anything? By Jerry Seinfeld
6. BONUS (Because I wanted so badly to finish it before the year’s end, but I finished it today….) The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

And that’s all for now!

Thank you for supporting me through such an ENORMOUS year. Can’t wait for everything that 2023 has in store.

With love,

Madison