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Unresolved
By: Susan Goldfein / Susan’s Unfiltered Wit
So here we are, once again on the threshold of a
new year. How many times in the next 24 hours
will you say or think: Where did the time go?
So I won’t bother to repeat it here. (But where did it go?)
Do you still consider making New Year’s resolutions? If you don’t
write them down, do you even think about them?
I have long ago given up making promises to myself that I will never
keep. If I want to feel bad about myself for being a weakling, I already
have sufficient items from prior years to draw upon.
So this year, instead of trying to reconfigure bad habits, I’ve decided
to embrace them. Below is just a partial list of personal reforms that
will NOT happen in 2024 .
Snap!
By: Dianne Hahn / Back in the Days
Do you remember when grownups used to
bore you about how hard they had it as kids...
walking to school in the freezing rain and snow!
I vowed I’d never do that.
But now that I’m over the hill and sliding down, I’m beginning to
sympathize with those old folks from days gone by. Snap!
Compared to what I went through, kids’ lives today are filled with
toppings of peaches and cream, poured over imported French Vanilla ice
cream with a big dab of whipped cream on top!
Okay, neither one of us travelled the rough prairies in a covered wagon,
but I grew up without an internet! I had to traipse over to the library for
info and deal with the card catalogue to write an essay.
No email but a pen and paper to write a letter. Yup, wrote in longhand,
addressed an envelope, and walked to the postbox to mail it. Oh, wait! Had
to buy stamps first! The letter took over a week to arrive!
No cell phones! We had one black rotary phone in the house. The
family shared it. If a call came in while you were on the phone, the caller
got a busy signal! No call waiting!
1. Spend more time at the gym.
2. Eat more vegetables.
3. Give up Cool Whip.
4. Lose weight.
5. Shop less.
6. Get more sleep.
7. Organize my drawers and keep them organized.
8. Stop wasting time watching Law and Order reruns.
9. Improve at golf.
10. Learn French.
11. Cook at home more often.
12. Always hang up my clothes before I go to bed.
13. Read James Joyce.
14. Wear a bikini.
15. Complete a London Times crossword puzzle.
16. Solve even one clue of a London Times crossword
puzzle.
17. Have a neat desk.
18. Never write another essay about my husband.
So, what did you do on New Year’s Eve? Stay at home? Perhaps a
movie? Dinner with friends? A fancy party?
Did you even try to stay awake until midnight? Whatever your
preference, I want to wish everyone a happy, healthy New Year.
And thank you for your encouragement and readership. My husband
also thanks you. The time I spend writing is time spent not shopping.
Susan Goldfein’s newest book, Laughing My Way Through the
Third Stage, is available at Amazon.com, BN.com, Read her blog
at: www.SusansUnfilteredWit.com. Email Susan: SusanGoldfein@
aol.com.
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January 2024
We didn’t keep in touch 24/7! Kids of today become paranoid if they
aren’t clutching their cell phones or texting!
Kids weren’t rude back then either! If you were, you’d get a swat from
your parents. At school, the strap, or a wrap on the knuckles with a ruler
- then you were expelled.
“Wait until your father gets home!” No Child Protective Services to
care!
Remember car rides? No guarantee you’d come out unscathed. No
seatbelts or car seats! If you sat up front your mom would stretch her
arm out if she had to stop suddenly, so you wouldn’t go flying into the
windshield. In the backseat you had to watch out and hang on!
All meals made from scratch, no microwaves, no frozen foods. Kids of
today would be in a daze! But, I suppose they’ll be saying the same about
their kids once they’ve made the climb, eh! Yeah…Snap!
A former schoolteacher, Dianne Sebis Hahn writes for children too.
Presently, Dianne has eight books available on Amazon.com.