End o' the Year

Hey! Time for you (yes! YOU!) to start a new week-after-Christmas tradition. No, it's not Chanukkah or Kwanza. It's about a million times better!

Go to the bookstore today and every night this week, read a few chapters of "Peter Pan" by J.M. Barrie. I've done it for the past two years now. If you hate New Years because it reminds you of the temporal nature of life and the unstoppable passage of time, this is the book for you. Barrie's magnificent prose, vivid imagery, and deft use of metaphor will magnify those unpleasant feelings until they burst out of you in the form of bitter tears.

There's nothing like ringing in the new year with a good cry.