The sun was out for a little bit today, and in the Midwest in winter, that’s a big deal. I saw it through the window in my classroom. I *should* have gone outside and just soaked it up for a couple minutes, but today was a work day before the new semester and I needed every second of that precious work time. So I missed the sun but got my desk clean(ish). Life’s all about trade-offs. And sunshine.

At the risk of echoing the myriad articles and sound bites about setting New Year’s Resolutions, I’m going to say it: setting a New Year’s Resolution is daunting, and it kind of sucks. Many of us set these lofty long-term goals and might even call it a win if we stick with a drastic lifestyle change for a week, then we’ve met our change quota for the year and we can settle back into the old routines for about 350 days. Some of us are happy we’ve made our resolution stick for one week or one month, and some of us are left with yet another sense of letdown…