Tag Archives: new year’s resolution

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wake up and fight

By now, you’ve seen Woody Guthrie’s “New Years Rulin’s.” The list lover in me is as tickled as the fan. Big surprise: Not much has changed in seventy years. We still want to “read lots […]

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the joy luck club

I forgot to resolve. I’m sure I was supposed to join most of the rest of America and engage in the annual ritualistic declaration, but I have been tiptoeing around the baby new year, afraid […]

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alchemy

It’s Christmas, but you wouldn’t know it by my house, which has no tree, no wrapped presents, no fauxflake or stocking or stray spray of tinsel. It’s not because I’m a curmudgeon. I just started […]

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Ready, Set—

Today is the day I slough my summer skin, that sun-dried outer shell, and expose my gooey center, the one that gets filled with cake and challah and buttercream. And then I’ll swear off that […]

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