1973

1973 Resolutions Revisited

As everyone has been discussing New Year’s Resolutions–whether to make them or not, how to keep them, if they’re a good idea–I’m reminded of my mother’s annual insistence that we write our New Year’s resolutions. Last year I wrote about her resolutions made in 1973 and worked on until she breathed her last on January … [Read more…]

January 1, 1973

Mentioning the New Year’s Resolutions my mother required us to write reminded me of a tattered piece of shirt cardboard that she had taped to her closet door. It was her resolutions from January 1, 1973–years after I’d married and left home. But evidently they were so satisfactory that she saw no need to replace them … [Read more…]