New Year Resolutions

Are you ready to embrace this new year? Admittedly, these past two years have not given us much to cheer about, but there is something about hanging a new calendar on the wall and seeing those squares ready to be filled with activities and events that give us hope of something better to come.

One of my favorite things to do is to walk along a beach after a wave has washed away all the imperfections in the sand. That is how the beginning of a new year seems to me.

Now, about those resolutions: Are you like the fellow whose annual list of resolutions is simply a carbon copy of the previous year’...