Posts Tagged: happy new year

Welcome 2020! (a little late)

posted on 01/15/2020

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We rang in the new year with family and friends at our Roaring 20’s, Gatsby -themed party. With work and the kids and my recent surgeries, big parties have been a rarity at our house for the last few years. But when we had to postpone a family vacation we’d planned for the winter break, […]

What We Repeatedly Do – Making Plans for 2018

posted on 12/31/2017

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Will Durant I have mixed feelings about New Year’s resolutions. On the one hand, I’m the kind of girl who needs all the structure she can get. For those of us with disorganized brains, goals that are tied to […]

Happy 2016! Now, where was I?

posted on 01/01/2016

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Happy New Year! I hope you are all having a great start to 2016, or at least being comforted by endlessly watchable bad television. I’m tucked under a sherpa blanket and a boxer-shepherd mix watching Big Hero 6 with my family. Pretty sweet. It’s been quite a year for me (and my family, who get […]

Happy 2016! Now, where was I?

posted on 01/01/2016

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2014 Books, 2015 Promises

posted on 01/02/2015

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Happy New Year! A year ago today, I set out a list of 36 books to read in 2014. Of those titles, I managed to read just over a third with these thirteen: 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers by Peter Selgin Someone Else’s Love Story by Joshilyn […]