View from the North 40 : Celebrate the old you this New Year

Call me a snowflake, I don’t care, but I refuse to participate in the scam called New Year’s resolutions because it is an affront to my emotional well-being.

You know the drill. Along with lists of Top 10 Whatevers of the Year, along with the Best This and the Worst That recaps, we get this pressure to come up with awesome ways we are going become the new and improved version of ourselves — eat right, get more sleep, exercise more, lose weight, get a raise/promotion/better job, stop swearing, be grateful, read more intellectual stuff, make more time for family, downsize, upsize, simp...