Dear New Shrink, I have tried to stop drinking but have not been able to, even after getting a DUI. But I feel ready and have made a New Year’s resolution to stop! My family wants me to go to rehab but I really do not think I need it.
Unless you were under a rock last week, you were exposed to more than your fair share of those “Story of the Decade” lists covering every aspect of every conceivable thing across every platform of American media.
Well, it’s been a couple of days since the New Year’s ball dropped and many of us now ponder the coming new year with the interrogative singularity: “How do I deflate this chocolate-covered, four-ply belted, Santa Cholesterol Michelin tire from around my cupcake inflated midsection?” My New Year’s r
Leonardo da Vinci, born in the middle of the 15th century, was the founder of modern science and an interpreter between nature and humans. He sought to understand the nature of life two centuries before the microscope was invented.
For those of you who follow this column, you know that a little ways back I made a very grand and public declaration about my commitment to lose those last 10 pounds from my pregnancy and get back into shape.
Life has a funny way of teaching you lessons. Sometimes they come easily, like when you were a kid and your mom caught you stealing a candy bar and made you take it back to the grocery store and admit your wrongs.
With each new year I am reminded of making resolutions. While many of our new year’s resolutions have to do with getting in shape, eating better, or finding more time for family or friends, some of your resolutions may deal with your career or financial success.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that I wished our “green” City Council would initiate and pass a strong ordinance that would phase out old wood-burning fireplaces, outlaw them in new construction and/or require a stiff annual operating permit.
Today is New Year’s Day, which may explain my hangover. I remember a particular New Year’s when just the typewriter keys hitting the paper gave me a pounding headache.
My old cell phone died recently. We had been so happy together. It was a very simple phone, not like today’s “smart phones.” All I used it for was to make and receive calls and an occasional text message.
No girl ever wants to choose between her husband and her father. (And really, no girl ever has to, unless she’s spending the summer secretly doing the merengue with Patrick Swayze while her family vacations at a Jewish resort in the Catskills).
With each new year I am reminded of making resolutions. While many of our new year’s resolutions have to do with getting in shape, eating better, or finding more time for family or friends, some of your resolutions may deal with your career or financial success.
