🍩 A Baker's Dozen: Top Doh Posts From 2025
Well, that’s a wrap! After 90 posts this year, as we close out 2025, I’ve pulled together a baker’s dozen of this year’s most popular Doh essays based on reach (views) and engagement (likes, shares, and comments). They are listed below in chronological order; when more than one post in a mini-series was a hit, I’ve included only the first part below so you can start at the beginning.1
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🍩 Top 13 Rolling in Doh Posts from 2025
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🍇 The Terroir of Transformation, Part One
“O sacred solitary empty mornings, tranquil meditation — fruit of book-case and clock-tick, of note-book and arm-chair; golden and rewarding silence, influence of sun-dappled plane-trees, far-off noises of birds and horses, possession beyond price of a few cubic feet of air and an hour of leisure!
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🤩 One Hit! Wonder: "I've Already Won"
“Respect the one-hit wonder not for his one hit but for all the days he must have suffered afterward, trying for another.”
And the follow-up:
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🙏 Why aren't you enlightened yet?
“In the awakening of the heart there is no such thing as enlightened retirement. That is not how it happens to us. We all know that after the honeymoon comes the marriage, after the election comes the hard task of governance. In spiritual life it is the same: After the ecstacy comes the laundry.”
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👾 "I'm an alien," part one
“It brings to mind the ways in which really painful experiences in life can make people much more human. It can. I have often thought that. I have often thought that, if you’re lucky, you go through something that just cuts you off at the knees, and you’re humbled. As a result of that, you’re going to be a bigger person—that’s the best-case scenario. As opposed to becoming bitter. So yeah, to be humbled, I think, can be a very good thing ultimately.”
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🙅🏻♀️ The book I avoided buying for 12 years, part one
“One hears—one does not seek; one takes—one does not ask who gives: a thought suddenly flashes up like lightning, it comes with necessity, without faltering—I have never had any choice in the matter."
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These were the most popular of the year, perhaps because fellow authors were tagged:
📚 The Untold Story of Book(s) Sales, Part One
Greetings, Dohnuts! We’re taking a break from the Hurry Up and Wait series, as there are no new updates (yet!) on the moving or renting front.
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📕 All the Way to the Memoir, Part One
“One day, I had a horrible idea and I shared it with my wife. I told her I was thinking of writing a collection of personal essays, and if I did it would take me years to write it, and even if I sold it, I’d barely make any money.
Plus our most robust discussion prompt of the year:
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🦌 On Fawning—and Why I Was Wrong About My Most Toxic Trait, Part One
“I wasn’t supposed to tell my story because it was better than anyone else’s, or worse than anyone else’s, or even that different from anyone else’s, but because it was the story I had—the same way you might use a nail not because you thought it was the best nail ever made, but simply because it was the one lying in your drawer.
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🐦🔥Phoenixing Postscript (Part Seven)
Catch up on parts one, two, three, four, five, and six of the Fawning-to-Phoenixing series:
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⛅️ Head in the Clouds, Part One
“The tides might tell themselves stories about why they’re rushing in and out, but it’s ultimately the moon that’s in charge.” —Leslie Jamison, Splinters
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💯 Adulting is Easy!
*In this precise order, give or take ten items at a time, or side effects may include: anxiety, irritability, dread, overwhelm, fatigue, guilt, micro-guilt, feelings of defeat and/or numbness. If you have young kids, add ten more items of your choosing—or 20, or 30, or 40—up to you.
Did you have a favorite from this year that didn’t make the cut? Let me know in the comments if so :)
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I've loved reading your work this year, Jenny. Congrats on a great year and I'm looking forward to more in 2026 💕