New Years Day

New Years Day. This is my favorite day of the year. Why? It’s the ultimate fresh start. A new beginning. The first day of the year symbolizes a definite ending to the year prior and the beginning of the next chapter. Many of us start New Years resolutions and fail…

My Take Wow, 2022 is finally over. It was quite the year. I know a lot of people went through some tough stuff in ’22, here’s to 2023 being much better. I’m hoping to start the year of strong with some great clients on the Goldstein Media side. I also have some…

It’s New Year’s Day and I’m scrolling through friends’ year end roundup posts. They share stories of grief, love, travel, illness, trauma, and cautious hope for 2023. I’m lucky. My 2022 was amazing. I attended writing retreats in Monterey, California and Lesbos, Greece. I went on a spiritual journey on…

Employees at this Lake Luzerne factory didn’t appear to resent that New Year’s Day was not a paid holiday. “The employees at West’s Mill presented their superintendent, James Mulrennan, on New Year’s Day, with a very handsome office chair,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on Jan.3,1890. In another…

New Year’s Day is a holiday that normalizes making goals that we know are not possible to meet. Every year, we make long, vague lists detailing our goals and aspirations for the upcoming year. Some of them are more plausible than others — like reading at least one book a…

you too can redeem time “All is quiet on New Year’s Day / A world in white gets underway I want to be with you / Be with you night and day Nothing changes on New Year’s Day / On New Year’s Day” I always think of this song when…