Bring on the New Year

Are you ready for 2014?

A few years ago I started running again for the first time since I was on the cross-country team my sophomore year at West Ottawa High School.

I've also been trying to catch up on the classics I never got around to reading.

I did something on New Year's Day that I haven't done in 25 years; I went skiing.

I can't tell you that it was as thrilling as I remember.  Without the root beer schnapps and the teenage testosterone, it was mostly just cold- even in my new snowpants!  I made a few good runs and had a great time, though, because I was doing something different.

Are you stuck in a routine?  Does each day look like the one that came before it?  Is there something you did as a kid that you haven't done in forever?

Get out there and do it!

I don't win every race I enter and it seems I add more books to my list than I finish, but running and reading make my life better.

You don't have to run a marathon or read The Odyssey.  You don't have to make grand, sweeping, all-inclusive New Year's resolutions.  You don't have to "become a better person".

All you have to do is something.