Lists of 2016

Things that made me sad (a long list this year):

• Umberto Eco
• Prince
• David Bowie
• Alan Rickman
• Fort MacMurray
• Orlando, Turkey, Baghdad, Bangladesh
• Leonard Cohen
• Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

Things that irritated me:

• Christy Clark (a three-peat)
• Donald Trump and the entire GOP cabal
• Stanford rapist
• Brexit, especially Nigel Farage
• Pokemon Go

Things that made me smile

• Julian Barnes
• Snowball
• Elizabeth Warren
• Northwest Passage
• De Grasse
• Justin and Sophie

Things that amused me:

• Sandra Boynton
• Chewbacca Mom
• Carol Burnett