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A Shot in the Dark!<br />
By: Dianne Hahn / Back in the Days<br />
We’re now one month into hanging a new<br />
year on the line.<br />
The time-honored<br />
tradition of New Year’s resolutions is in<br />
full force. Did you make any? How are they<br />
going?<br />
Every January I sit and ponder, then begin<br />
to write. What are my goals? What do I need<br />
to improve?<br />
Easy to make the list, hard to struggle<br />
through it! Looking in my rearview mirror,<br />
I don’t believe I’ve ever gotten through a<br />
whole year with all, or even most, of those<br />
good intentions accomplished.<br />
I’ve realized that resolutions aren’t my<br />
thing. That said, this year my list consists of<br />
one, and only one resolution<br />
I’m not giving up on myself, but we’re all good at some things and<br />
not very good at others. Apparently, I’m hopeless when it comes to<br />
accomplishing those optimistic little resolves I’ve neatly listed in order<br />
of importance.<br />
Let’s see - I’ve vowed to shed the same twenty pounds…for the last<br />
twenty years! My diet resolutions to eat healthier evaporate when I get<br />
a whiff of freshly baked French bread or spot a batch of scrumptious<br />
chocolate chip cookies!<br />
I’m a goner! I’m serving a healthy kale<br />
and quinoa salad for dinner, and bread<br />
would be delicious with it! And really, how<br />
bad could one (or even two) little crisp<br />
chocolate chip cookies be? The bread and<br />
cookies end up on my dinner tables!<br />
Every year, I promise to improve my<br />
housekeeping skills. By February I’m<br />
pushing the dust motes under the sofa again!<br />
I say I’m gonna hit the gym on a regular<br />
basis, learn a new language, meditate daily.<br />
I cut coupons to save. That lasts a month if<br />
I’m lucky!<br />
No, I’m finally tired of carrying the same<br />
list over and over from year to year. I’ve<br />
stopped writing. No more resolutions!<br />
Oh wait! That’s a resolution, too. Isn’t it? Wonder how that one is going<br />
to work out for me? A shot in the dark again, Ya think?<br />
A former schoolteacher, Dianne Sebis Hahn writes for children too.<br />
Presently, Dianne has eight books available on Amazon.com.<br />
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