It’s mid-January, and finally the smoke from the holidays — and my annual fit of enthusiasm for radical self-improvement — has cleared. You know what I’m talking about. Faster, thinner, smarter this year. No, this year. Truth is, the older I get, the less I like to make big plans for fixing everything that should be in the first quarter of every new year. A lot of stuff that was on fire New Year’s Day doesn’t seem quite as important by the middle of the January. And there’s less chance of having to deal with the letdown of my wild-eyed … Continue reading →