Happy New Year: Here's Hoping for More Good Days Than Bad in 2026

HAPPY NEW YEAR, friends! May 2026 bring you lots of good things, great things, and more good days than bad ones. That's our wish for you.

The other day, we asked you on Instagram what you wish for yourselves, and the answers included words like “finally, some boredom,” “health,” “quiet,” “peace,” and “lightness.” Funnily enough, not one of you wrote that you wanted more sex. (Just an aside. Maybe those who do just couldn't find the comments section. Sorry, joking. Back to the wishes:)

Our wishes for you

For these first days of the year especially, we wish you a few moments to yourself, exactly the way you want and imagine them. With that deep exhale in your chest, that feeling that everything is going to be okay. With that inner contentment we can't force into existence, but that sometimes sneaks in on its own, and that we get to notice and enjoy when it does.

We wish you kids who don't challenge you quite so often, moments you'll remember, laughing until your stomach hurts, stretches without the hamster wheel, and love. It doesn't matter from whom. Just the feeling of being loved, of being safe, of being held, of having someone there to catch you. That's what we wish for you.

January is going to be long again. So for the first time, instead of taking the first week of the year off from publishing new posts like we usually do, we've decided to keep sharing stories with you every day, stories about people whose stories we think deserve to be told.

For now, we're simply looking forward to the year ahead with you, and we wish you nothing but the very best!

P.S. Here's our New Year's horoscope for the year ahead, to print out.