Maybe it’s the Virgo in me, but I actually like New Year’s “Resolutions” in a sense. I also enjoy taking the hundreds of books off of my book shelf each year, caressing them gently with a dust cloth, making out with them, adding them to the book app on my phone so that I don’t buy the exact same book when I go into Barnes & Noble and think “Ooooh, this looks great.” (Yeah, it was. The first time I read it ten years ago.) I adore the process of rearranging them that is all mine and has nothing to do with alphabetization, but more to do with how much I loved them (if I remember reading them at all.) I’m an anal Virgo Warrior Librarian, for sure.

I went on a trip to the beach recently. The weather was perfect - highs in the high 80s, ocean breeze, not too many other beach-goers, a really big umbrella so I didn't have to be in the sun all day but could still engage in my favorite pasttime: gazing at the waves. In other words, total bliss

But I couldn't wait to get home.

How do you feel about change?  If you’re anything like me, you probably have mixed feelings about it.  While it often depends on our perception of the type of change – big or small, good or bad, needed or unnecessary, easy or hard, etc. – most of us seek and fear change simultaneously.

I’ve taken a lot of risks in the last two years. I’ve found myself boarding planes with no real plans for once I land; not concerning myself with “how” I will afford my mortgage; and living for months on end out of a single suitcase with no real home.