Advice from a small town girl

Wow!

It's a whole new year!

Again.

Well, it's not actually a whole new year as I'm writing this, since my deadline is Monday, but I'm projecting a bit here, trying to sound like the me I think I'll be on Thursday, when you might be reading this.

That's right.

I'll still be me.

When I was a very young person, and even a not-so-young person, I still believed that if I tried hard enough, I could reinvent myself on an annual basis.

I don't believe those things anymore.

It's not that I don't believe I can change some aspects of myself.

I still believe that I can change habits. Behavior. Appearance,...