For years I didn’t make resolutions on New Year’s Day. But over the last couple of years, that’s begun to change. It’s a nice idea, this starting a new year and turning a new page and having 365 (or 366!) days ahead to strive for something. There’s something clean with…
You know that saying, “you learn something new every day”? A lot of the time it’s very true, and I find myself thinking that after learning something new. Today it’s happened early, so there may be several something news learned. I’m reading Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow, and even…
It seems everyone is posting about the past year, which of course makes sense given that 2010 is all too rapidly coming to a close. And for the most part, it was a good year, which is only fitting that it was the end of the first decade of the…
I love the holidays. It’s really the only time I don’t mind it being cold. In fact…it’s kind of better when it is. Then it just feels so right to bundle up when running some quick shopping trips, not minding the slight cold that will bring a little color to…