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New Year's resolutions | New Year's resolutions

joann-smith-ainsworth's picture
Jan.09.2011
I wrote down some weighty goals for the New Year. On looking at them, some would seem too ambitious to achieve. Yet, inside I have an optimism that this year I might surprise everyone, and perhaps myself, by accomplishing many of them. I feel in my insides that the sweat equity I invested over the...
michelle-curtis's picture
Jan.06.2011
In an effort to keep my New Year's resolution, I will keep this blog entry as simple as I can. Over the past several years, I have watched my life become more and more complicated.  From my personal relationships with friends and family to the never ending mountain of paperwork that piles up on my...
aron-kristinsson's picture
Jan.03.2011
Making a promise to one self at the turn of the year is something many of us do, even if it's just something minor like losing 10 pounds or finally finishing that thing you said you would do last year but didn't do because you just didn't have the time. Most of us begin the year with high hopes of...
sam-barry's picture
Jan.01.2011
One day many years ago, when I was graduating from college, my mother handed me a piece of paper with a list of resolutions carefully printed in what I immediately recognized as my own early adolescent handwriting. My mother had found this hallowed document in my room years before and had kept...
amy-d-shojai's picture
Dec.31.2010
Feline Friday felicitations—and I hope your holiday week has been lovely. Oh, and Happy New Year!  Are you getting all spiffed up for a party tonight? Maybe your cats can help, especially if you have a beautician cat…ever wonder why some cats lick, chew, or even kitty comb your hair? This Ask Amy...
scot-celley's picture
Dec.30.2010
The other day I read about a study that showed the majority of new year’s resolutions are broken within the first two months. Make ‘em, break ‘em. Made it seem that even thinking about making a new year’s resolution was a hopeless, futile gesture. My take, however, is something different. To me,...
scot-celley's picture
Dec.30.2010
The other day I read about a study that showed the majority of new year’s resolutions are broken within the first two months. Make ‘em, break ‘em. Made it seem that even thinking about making a new year’s resolution was a hopeless, futile gesture. My take, however, is something different. To me,...
colleen-friesen's picture
Dec.30.2010
The Love Religion   The inner space inside that we call the heart has become many different living scenes and stories.   A pasture for sleek gazelles, a monastery for Christian monks, a temple with Shiva dancing, a kaaba for pilgrimage.   The tables of Moses are there, the Qur’an,...
colleen-friesen's picture
Dec.30.2010
The Love Religion   The inner space inside that we call the heart has become many different living scenes and stories. A pasture for sleek gazelles, a monastery for Christian monks, a temple with Shiva dancing, a kaaba for pilgrimage. The tables of Moses are there, the Qur’an, the Vedas, the...
colleen-friesen's picture
Dec.30.2010
The Love Religion The inner space inside that we call the heart has become many different living scenes and stories.   A pasture for sleek gazelles, a monastery for Christian monks, a temple with Shiva dancing, a kaaba for pilgrimage.   The tables of Moses are there, the Qur’an, the Vedas...