Since 2015 I have started each year with a post outlining some of the pieces I'd like to write in the coming months. These posts have become a history of futility on this blog. I list some topics I'd like to cover, and over the year I might get one or two of them done. So many topics, so little time, so many new topics popping up all the time. If you have the inclination, you can read all about it: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
This past year I did manage a post on a 1987 brochure of Birmingham's Five Points South area; I had been planning that one for some time. I also posted one about the Paul Bryant Museum in Tuscaloosa which my son Amos and I visited in January 2023. Among the other posts for the year were the usual pieces on Alabama-related photos, maps, postcards, movies and bookstores. Only 38 items were posted in 2025, the fewest ever, no doubt due to the move we made from Pelham to Saint Johns, Florida in May and June.
So what might be coming in 2026? No doubt more of those photos, postcards and such. I also hope to finally get around to part 2 of "Alabama on the Hollywood Walk of Fame". I only managed the first half of the alphabet in part 1. I've already started work on "Tallulah, Gary, Cary & the Devil" about Bankhead's 1932 film Devil and the Deep. Her co-stars include Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, and Charles Laughton in his first film. There's lots of excitement involving Tallulah's gowns and a submarine voyage.
I thought about doing an inventory from all these "What's Coming" posts of ideas I listed but have yet to write about. That thought quickly gave me a headache. Well, I guess I'll be back in January 2026 to see how all this speculation for 2025 turned out.