2025 Highlights
Note: this is just the highlight reel. Every year has its share of challenges, too.
I’ll always remember 2025 as the year I became a mother. I could maybe stop this post right there. I’m surprised by how much I enjoyed being pregnant, and I am still in awe of mine and Rahul’s beautiful little creature every day.
Work
It feels odd to type up this section while on parental leave: what is this “work” you speak of??? In any case:
- 2025 was my first year as a people manager; I’m the Group Product Manager leading the core product at Webflow, alongside my design and engineering partners.
- I also made my first couple hires!
- We made the entire GSAP library free and shipped the foundations of our new Interactions feature, replatformed on GSAP.
- My team members and their collaborators shipped tons of great updates enabling people to design and build inspiring websites on Webflow: from code components to new styling capabilities to Shared Library improvements and enhancement of the overall design UX.
Looking forward to pushing our vision for designing on Webflow further in 2026!
Personal projects
- Hosted Backlog Readathon for a second year. Join us next year in the “dead week” between Dec 26–31!
- Lots of sewing and knitting projects, with a bit of sketchbooking thrown in
- Did some digital gardening on my current projects, but no brand-new web projects this year. I keep thinking of projects that require ongoing content maintainance, and I told myself “no more forever projects”.
Side quests
- Started and kept a weekly accountability check-in with a former coworker, now friend
- Went to Scottsdale, AZ and San Diego, CA for work trips
- Saw Bright Eyes play the Paramount
- Visited La Jolla and ogled at all the seals
- Visited my in-laws again in New Delhi
- We all flew for a mini-vacation in Goa
- Tried making mochi
- Went on a babymoon to Montreal
- Happened to be there in time to check out MCAF (Montreal Comic Arts Festival)
- Enjoyed picnics in parks with friends
- Showed my family our local tidepools
- Finally saw Death Cab for Cutie play live
- Attended my second Fiber Flock Fest with a friend
- Acquired a Switch 2 and promptly kicked my husband’s butt in Mario Kart World
- Attended a wedding at Thornewood Castle, one of the filming locations for The Haunting of Bly Manor
- Bid my friend group’s favorite spooky franchise (The Conjuring) adieu
- Got our basement plumbing torn up and fixed 💸💸💸
- Hosted each set of grandparents for baby cuddles
- Established a November family tradition of visiting the spawning salmon
Media
✶ = particular favorite
Favorite books
I read 57 books in 2025, so roughly the same scale of reading as 2024. Here’s a few good books:
- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (read this one on the postpartum unit, haha)
- Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
- A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter
- Heartstopper, Vol. I by Alice Oseman
- It’s Easier Than You Think by Sylvia Boorstein
- Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar ✶
- The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
- Real Americans by Rachel Khong
- Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
- Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure La Cunff ✶
Favorite movies
I watched 58 films in 2025. I’mn noticing it was a pretty decent year for quality horror movies. Some new watches I enjoyed or appreciated:
- 21 Jump Street: shocked that I enjoyed this so much
- Challengers
- Do the Right Thing ✶
- Good Will Hunting
- Heretic
- The Holdovers
- A Real Pain
- Sinners ✶
- The Substance
- Thelma ✶
- Wake Up Dead Man
- Weapons ✶
- We Live in Time
- The Wild Robot
2026 theme
My word for 2026 is “wonder”. I want to show my daughter—and remind myself—that the world is a vibrant, magical place.
Pollyanna-but-earnest vibes incoming…
So much feels uncertain and scary right now, but beauty and connection persist. Each of us always has the power to alleviate suffering and create joy in our communities—no matter what the cynical and cruel politicians would like us to believe. Let’s continue to show up for one another and savor the year ahead. 💫
