New Year’s Day 2019

A new beginning for optimists and pessimists alike.

Pause for thought: New Year

“A Song for New Year’s Eve”

Something old, something new.

New Year’s Eve 2013

The end of one year and the beginning of the next is a time of hope and a time of regret. Nothing that has passed can be relived or regained, and yet the days renew themselves with the elusive prospect of change.

“The New Year”

Charles Dickens famously wrote about Christmas in several stories and magazine articles. He seems to have overlooked the New Year except in an early piece in which he is nostalgic at the passing of friendship, goodwill, and time itself.