19 years of logging the web

My blog turns 19 today! I've written 521 posts in that time. I wrote about the one-year anniversary here (averaged a post a week back then!). I wrote about the ten-year anniversary here. Last year I listed my top 18 posts based on number of views. This year I thought I'd list the top 19* posts from my POV. Here they are in loose chronological order:

1. Boston! Specifically moving from Oakland to and living in Boston for 4 years to attend grad school. I also taught for a bit there (it's a bit heartbreaking now to read my description of a postgrad teaching fellowship as "the start of my teaching career") and had my first kid. Most notable series of posts during this time, of course, is my MFA thesis.
2. Dancing. I never write about TV anymore (occasionally I'll mention what I'm watching on my newsletter) but I wrote a lot back then about So You Think You Can Dance. I was a superfan and continue to be a self-described dance enthusiast.
3. Family! As I mentioned at the top, I had my first kid while living in Boston. I eventually started a separate, private baby blog of sorts (one that I haven't updated since my 2nd kid was a toddler), but I do write here about family shenanigans a fair amount, especially as I have attempted to navigate art, work, and motherhood over the past 16+ years.
4. The Makery (original post is here)! This was a project I started when my son was just a few months old, while teaching my one class as a postgrad teaching fellow, just to sort of work back in to my daily life the regular act of making stuff. 
5. Etsy. Oof, where to even begin with this one. I had two Etsy shops at one point, one of which served as the online store for a legitimate micro-biz a little later on, which was my (low paying but more or less) full-time gig between kids. Long story short, Etsy changed, I changed, and eventually I shuttered my shops and business in favor of two "real" jobs since plus a couple of non-paying side projects in between (my 2 years of "unemployment by choice" between my last day job and my current day job started here).
6. Cats! In the spirit of honesty, I have to start by saying there is a really sad post that I won't link to about how we lost, literally, one of the cats of our previous bonded pair. You can search for it if you want to sob, I guess. But for lighter cat-adjacent topics, these are probably two of my favorite posts, the first about flying with felines, in which I make a cat carrier cozy, and a more recent post about feline non-recognition aggression. Not fun to experience in the moment, I guess, but fun challenges to write about after the fact.
7. A place of my own. I wrote over the course of multiple posts over multiple years about carving out studio space post-kids (one of two things every creative person needs, the other being time), starting out as a portion of the garage, eventually taking over my husband's office when he switched from a remote to an onsite job, to a portion of my closet after my 2nd kid kicked me out of that space, before finally splurging on a backyard studio shed where I'm writing this now.
8. Running (Big Sur in 2001, Oakland full in 2012, and the Oakland half in 2021), which has a therapeutic effect on me that I like to describe as "screaming in a socially acceptable way." This has been mostly replaced by mountain biking over the last year or so.
9. Travel. Fun travel posts include trying all the donuts in Bend, Oregon, hanging out with a bunch of 8th graders in DC, and a much more recent family trip to Iceland.
10. Work, specifically the burning bridges series about the many day jobs I've had over the past 30 years. This was the first one, about my first non-babysitting job the summer between junior and senior years of high school. I wrote about my current day gig here.
11. The podcast. It's been 5 years since I published my last, bonus episode of season 1. I have working docs full of ideas and plans for not one but two more seasons. The irony of being a working parent artist, of course, is that there's little time to interview other working parent artists about how they juggle it all (spoiler alert: most of us don't, at least not well). All the podcast-related posts can be found under this label.
12. The pandemic diaries. I blogged every week or two (beginning here) about how we were passing the time, staying healthy, and juggling distance learning while working from home. I wrote a recap on the 3rd anniversary of lockdown here.
13. Going vegan. While other folks were baking bread and learning to play an instrument, my pandemic project was all about eliminating animal products from my life and diet, my mantra over time becoming "the world is not your oyster." 4 1/2 years later I describe myself as "mostly vegan," being 100% vegan a daily goal I don't always meet, although most days I'm pretty darn close.

What will I blog about during my 20th year of blogging?

*While I could only come up with 13 topics, there are more than 19 blog posts linked above.