Turning the Page on 2013

It's no myth that "the older you get the faster time goes". I've heard it explained that it is because each week, month, year represents a smaller percentage of your life as you age and that makes sense. I also think in many cases it is because the older you get the more you try to jam into the remaining time you will be blessed with. This past year was certainly a busy one and one of the nice things about blogging or journaling is that I don't feel any pressing need to rehash what happened in 2013. I blogged my trips, I blogged my races and I blogged a lot about the day to day life on the ranch in California.

Obviously losing my Dad was a big thing this past year and then celebrating the first holidays, birthdays and so on with neither parent being here. In one sense though Dad's passing was a relief because he wanted to go ever since Mom did in 2011. That doesn't mean that he didn't fight hard in the end it just means that he was ready when it was time. We miss him and out of the blue things will happen to remind us of both him and Mom but we can share the memories and know that they are ok.

Speaking of "turning the page" I finished typing my 2013 reading list this morning and here are the books that I'm finishing off the year with:

I have read the Bible cover to cover every year since 2006. This year I decided to focus on just the New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs and I will finish this one tomorrow. I read a Margolin novel earlier this year and enjoyed it, particularly the characters in his Amanda Jaffe series so I went to Google to get a list of all his novels in the series, found them at a used book store, bought them and read them. This is the most recent and I will finish it today. If you like legal thrillers then I recommend Margolin.

I'll also finish a good autobiography by Anne Audain today and I'm reading the book that I received from my Daughter and son-in-law for Christmas; it is an interesting story and will be the first book on my completed reading list for 2014.

By the numbers in 2013: 82 novels and 20 Non Fiction books. I guess I do read a lot.

Happy New Year. Good reading in 2014!