Tag: New Year

  • My theme for 2023

    This is the word I’m going to use in 2023 to guide my path.

  • Bagna càuda

    Memories of a New Year’s party I used to always go to, and the Italian garlic sauce it always featured.

  • My theme for 2022

    At the first of each year I choose a theme that guides my choices through the year. Here’s my theme for 2022.

  • My theme for 2021

    Every New Year’s Day I choose a theme that guides my choices through the year. Here’s my word for 2021.

  • My theme for 2020

    Every New Year’s Day I choose a theme that guides my choices through the year. Here’s my word for 2020.

  • My theme for 2019

    Every New Year’s Day I choose a theme that guides my choices through the year. After one of the roughest years of my life, my 2019 theme is all about starting new.

  • My theme for 2018

    My theme for 2018 is stability. Because 2017 was anything but stable.

  • My theme for 2017

    When I wrote last year’s list of themes for my new year, I felt sure it would be the last one, that my annual setting of direction had run its course. I think a lot about who I am versus who I want to be. Some might call it navel gazing, but self-analysis is core…

  • My themes for 2016

    Instead of making New Year’s resolutions, at the beginning of each new year I think of three words that represent the growth I want to experience in the coming 12 months. 2015’s words were gratitude, power, and realism. I focused on them as best I could until June, when I lost my job. And then I had the…

  • My watchwords for 2015

    I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions, but I do like to have a set of words that represent the growth I want to experience in each new year. My 2014 words were anger, serenity, and faith.  This is normally where I tell you how I did with all of my words. Unfortunately, the only word that really…

  • An early morning New Year’s wish

    I write my blog early in the morning: up at 5, at the keyboard by 5:30, off to work shortly after 7. Another thing I used to do early, 20 years ago, was get up on New Year’s morning to do a morning radio show. I worked for a station part time, normally pulling weekend shifts. But for…

  • My watchwords for 2014

    For the past two years, using an idea from blogger Amy Parmenter, I chose three words that represented the growth I wanted to achieve in each of those years. Last year my words were joy, because I wanted to cultivate greater joy in my life; freedom, because I wanted never to have to remain in a bad situation because I couldn’t…