Ringing in the New Year with an Oink!
It’s New Year’s Day. I am pleasantly stuffed with pork loin and sauerkraut in hopes of bringing myself wealth and prosperity in the New Year. As the cliché goes, we say goodbye to our past and set down goals we hope to accomplish with our clean slate. Although, I feel my past is important in making future choices, I welcome the opportunity to revise the past year and start fresh. Last January, when I started this blog, I was very unhappy in my teaching career. I’ve longed to write for as long as I can remember, so I resolved to take the year to write more; I hoped it would move me in a new direction, perhaps, a writing career. Well, I am no longer teaching. I joined a writer’s group in Philadelphia, and I'm creating one with a fellow writer for the Buck’s County area. I started a novel. I interned with a college professor and a parenting magazine. I wrote an article to be published in the Feb. issue of the magazine pending approv...