While composing my Best Of post yesterday, I was shocked by how many bad things actually happened last year - hospital stays! broken arms! choking incidents! close calls with cars! - and yet the year still felt like a GOOD one. The things that make life happy are often such little things, things … [Read more...]
Auld Lang Syne
Whew. Whatever winter festival you celebrate, it's probably over now (deep breath...and...relax). And now it's time to plan for New Year's Eve, that marvelously universal night of renewal and the freshest of all fresh starts. I love it. I've done it all, from formal parties with multi-hundred … [Read more...]