2024: An Anti-Holiday Card
Margaret Seymour Margaret Seymour

2024: An Anti-Holiday Card

Yes, that card is a true reflection of my year. It’s the story I’m focusing on these last few days of 2024. But, like any story, it doesn’t share everything.

It doesn’t show many times my children humbled me, and not in the teary light-filled way we post about on Instagram but in the rage-filled, shame-spiral way that left me crying and questioning everything I thought I knew about myself.

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The Original Anti-Holiday Card
Margaret Seymour Margaret Seymour

The Original Anti-Holiday Card

The point here is to be honest about the personal missteps of 2020, take this photo of me for example — taken some time in March-May, likely around noon as I’m still in my house robe (but I guess that’s not really a strong indicator of anything), drinking a glass of rose and eating a tortilla and stick of cheese like a stray raccoon.

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August: Bad Decisions, New Beginnings
Margaret Seymour Margaret Seymour

August: Bad Decisions, New Beginnings

My breakdowns and bad decisions have always forced new beginnings, compelled me into something new in these dizzying final days of summer, forcing my necessary transitions, no matter how uncomfortable those transitions are. And to be clear, transitions are always uncomfortable.

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