Hello dearest reader,
Yes, it’s true. You are my dearest reader. (Don’t tell the others I said so.)
It’s almost New Years Day. Are you one for making resolutions?
I usually don’t.
I do, however, find a new clean calendar to be an excellent time to make fresh starts at things. (Is that like a resolution? Maybe? I’m gonna go with ‘no’.)
Anyway, what is going to get a fresh start in 2019 is MY BLOG AND NEWSLETTER.
More conversations with you!
More chances for you to tell me what you’d like to hear about!
More guinea pigs!
Wait, why guinea pigs?
First because it is a really hard word to spell and I need practice. But secondly because you would not believe the number of people who dress up guinea pigs and take pictures. And they make me laugh.
Like this:
I know. How cute is that?
How about you? Are you making resolutions? Resolving to NOT make resolutions? Do you always follow through on them? Never follow through? Give me the scoop!
Also, I had the chance to be interviewed by Michael Baker this week on his blog.
We talked about the hardest part of writing and what my favorite part was to write.
The last resolution I made some 15 years ago was that I would never again make a new years resolution. I kept that one. Every New Year’s Eve I decide on a word that I will endeavour to live to. Words like strength, joy, learn but only one at a time. This year I will strive for empathy. In all things. I do like my words, there is no giving up, no demand. Only the opportunity to enrich not just my life but the lives around me.
I usually write a list of new years resolutions and a letter to future me. It is something of a family tradition we started when my youngest sisters became teenagers. We open our letters on New Years Eve and then write a new one for the next year.
One resolution I’ve had every year for the last six years is to finish my book. ;P It gets done when it gets done.