Time to Clean House

Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod , owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.

So here we are, two weeks into the new year. How many of your resolutions have you already given up on? Or, did you even bother to make any at all?

In my family, rather than resolutions, we pick a word to attempt to live by/embrace for the year. Mine for 2015 is “tranquility,” something I never seem to embrace, no matter how often I purport to crave it. That inabil...