Happy New Year! And Why Not?
January first always brings with it a swirl of emotions for me. On one hand, there's the inevitable holiday hangover (not necessarily alcohol related, but not necessarily not, either). The decorations must come down, the cardboard boxes from all the presents recycled, the Christmas CDs tucked away in a drawer, the refrigerator cleared out of leftover leftovers. There's the looking back on all the things you planned on accomplishing that maybe you didn't exactly get to. The resolutions broken. The extra pounds you put on that must be dealt with (or not). And so on and so forth.
On the flip side, though, there's the excitement of a new year, a fresh start, a pressing of the reset button, a clean slate. So what if you didn't read as many books as you wanted, write as many pages as you'd hoped, sorted through all those digital photos you took on your vacation, put on five of the seventeen pounds you'd lost? It's a new day and you can start over. Make a whole slew of new resolutions that you won't necessarily get around to. Take even more pictures you may never look at again. Buy books to add to the pile of books you still have to get to.
And so, what does 2011 have in store for me this year? What goals would I like to set for myself (that I may, or may not actually get to)?
First and foremost I need to finish the third book in the Swim the Fly series (my editor will be happy to see that at the top of the list, I'm sure).
Then, there will be much book touring, both virtually and physically. I will be doing several online classroom visits this year as well as travelling to Toronto (twice) for Swim the Fly's White Pine Award nomination. And then there's a real possibility I will be visiting Kansas City to do some library and school visits. Finally (well, hopefully not TOO finally) I will be travelling to the UK to promote the publication of Swim the Fly overseas.
Beyond that, I actually do hope to sort through the thousands of photos I've taken over the last several years and get them out of my computer into the real world.
Also, I'll need to get back on the exercise/healthy eating wagon (break out that super iPad app again) so that I can re-lose five of the seventeen pounds I shed last year.
I'm going to try to blog a bit more as well. I probably said this last year too (don't remind me if I did). We'll see how this one works out.
All right, enough with the New Year's blather. I need to wrap this up so that I can get to my writing so that I don't feel guilty watching the Winter Classic later (which, in case you don't know already, has been postponed until 8:00 EST because of the weather in Pittsburgh)
In lieu of a rosy cheeked Baby New Year, how about I offer you a few more pics from my trip up the Rhine with my mom (I'll spare you my commentary just this once):
On the flip side, though, there's the excitement of a new year, a fresh start, a pressing of the reset button, a clean slate. So what if you didn't read as many books as you wanted, write as many pages as you'd hoped, sorted through all those digital photos you took on your vacation, put on five of the seventeen pounds you'd lost? It's a new day and you can start over. Make a whole slew of new resolutions that you won't necessarily get around to. Take even more pictures you may never look at again. Buy books to add to the pile of books you still have to get to.
And so, what does 2011 have in store for me this year? What goals would I like to set for myself (that I may, or may not actually get to)?
First and foremost I need to finish the third book in the Swim the Fly series (my editor will be happy to see that at the top of the list, I'm sure).
Then, there will be much book touring, both virtually and physically. I will be doing several online classroom visits this year as well as travelling to Toronto (twice) for Swim the Fly's White Pine Award nomination. And then there's a real possibility I will be visiting Kansas City to do some library and school visits. Finally (well, hopefully not TOO finally) I will be travelling to the UK to promote the publication of Swim the Fly overseas.
Beyond that, I actually do hope to sort through the thousands of photos I've taken over the last several years and get them out of my computer into the real world.
Also, I'll need to get back on the exercise/healthy eating wagon (break out that super iPad app again) so that I can re-lose five of the seventeen pounds I shed last year.
I'm going to try to blog a bit more as well. I probably said this last year too (don't remind me if I did). We'll see how this one works out.
All right, enough with the New Year's blather. I need to wrap this up so that I can get to my writing so that I don't feel guilty watching the Winter Classic later (which, in case you don't know already, has been postponed until 8:00 EST because of the weather in Pittsburgh)
In lieu of a rosy cheeked Baby New Year, how about I offer you a few more pics from my trip up the Rhine with my mom (I'll spare you my commentary just this once):
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