Welcome to 2026. May this brand-new year in your life and in all our lives prove to be the very best yet.
Author: Michael Carty
Editor ♦ Writer ♦ Blogger ♦ Artist ♦
May today be nothing but kind to you and yours.
MJCarty snapshots December 2025
A few personal highlights from December 2025, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
MJCarty.com: Top 5 posts of 2025
The five most-read posts of 2025 on MJCarty.com. My heartfelt gratitude to you if you have taken the time to read any words on this wee blog of mine.
What you are about to become
Welcome to the roaring twenties. What lies around the corner for you? You can only know what you are going through now, and what you have struggled through before. You can never know what you are about to become.
Nirvana live in London 1989 (#GigTicketMemories)
Nirvana live at the London Astoria Lame Fest, Sunday 3 December 1989: Gig ticket-inspired memories from my first ever grunge gig… plus my surprise discovery 36 years later that there exists a photograph with both Kurt Cobain and me in the same frame.
MJCarty snapshots November 2025
Spiders, unseasonal bees and witches in trees! A few personal highlights from November 2025, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
You bring light in
What is the most powerful legacy – the most “you” thing – that you could leave to the world?
Focus
Focus on the words you use. Can you put into words what you see and what you feel, right now?
You will do great things
Marvel Comics supremo Stan Lee once told the young Gene Simmons (later of Kiss fame): “You will do great things.”* Stan Lee’s words inspired this post, which can be read from first sentence to last, or from last sentence to first.
For the love of work?
What do you love most about the work you get to do? For me, it’s telling stories with data.
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