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Happy New Year
Welcome to 2025! If you have a seat belt, it is probably a good idea to fasten it now – it’s going to be a wild ride. There will be joy and sorrow, death and birth, war and peace, natural disasters, triumph and defeat. Just like every year. I’m simultaneously anticipating and dreading what the […]
New Year’s Eve, Again
My original intention was to pontificate on 2023, talk a bit about the high and low points of the year. To prepare for that I looked at the post from this day last year, to see if I had made any predictions for the year ahead. I didn’t. Instead I gave you a number of […]
The In-Between Time
The week between Christmas and New Year’s always seems different somehow. It is as if time has slowed down.In Canada, Christmas Boxing Day and New Year’s Day are statutory holidays. Given that, many people take the other three days of that work week off to get an extended vacation. There are fewer cars on the […]
New Year’s Eve 2022
It’s been a difficult year for many people and for society at large. The COVID-19 pandemic continues, inflation is at the highest level in 40 years, our leaders seem clueless as to how to solve our problems, there are wars and rumors of wars…and teh list is never-ending. It seems appropriate therefore to end 2022 […]
The Last Rant
I’d say it was time for my last rant of the decade, but that would make me more upset. Let’s call it my last rant of the year. What has been annoying me the past couple of weeks is the not usual end-of-year news reflections that seem to be dominating the media, but that the […]
New Year’s Resolution
I didn’t make any resolutions this year. You may have. If you are older than about 25, your resolution was probably to lose some weight. This stuff may help. You are welcome.
Which Direction Will You Choose?
It’s a new year. I could wax philosophical, but I’ll save that for another day perhaps. But I have been thinking about choices. We make them all the time, usually without thinking about it. For example, each morning I choose to put on a pair of socks. There are other options – I could go […]
A New Year Begins
Welcome to 2017. Good to have you aboard for the ride. Traditionally this is a day to make self-improvement resolutions. I think January 10 is the traditional day for abandoning most of those, which is one of the reasons I don’t bother with making them. It’s not that I don’t need improvement. My wife (and […]
Goodbye 2016
Here we are at the end of the year. Traditionally a time for reflection, with a vow to do better as the clock strikes midnight. How was your 2016? As bad as all the online pundits are proclaiming it? Or, when you reflect honestly, pretty much like every year, a mixture of good and bad. […]
Welcome to 2015
I buy a lot of diaries, fill them full of good intentions Each and every New Year’s Eve, I make myself a list All the things I’m gonna change, until January Second So this time I’m making one promise Yeah, This will be my resolution, Every day is New Year’s Day – Carolyn Arends The […]
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