I know that the American view of New Years Resolutions is that many are broken on January 1 and the rest are forgotten on January 2. The Chinese take a different view. Their Chinese holidays last at least a week where almost everything shuts down. That time is spent in deep contemplation. Most job changes take place soon after this period.

I’m not Chinese but it seems that especially during the last four years I too take time to see what I want to change in the coming year. I can proudly say that many of those resolutions have actually been fulfilled! Now that I am again living LOMO (Life On My Own) I don’t have to confer with someone else about how I live or what my abode looks like. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t regret being married for 36 years, even though in some aspects those years were a constant struggle. I simply don’t know how I would have handled going deaf by myself. Due to the amount of suicides in my family things might have been very different for me.

For the past couple of months I have been seriously contemplating what changes I want to make in 2026. Every day is a gift for me now and I don’t want to waste any of them. I wish I had had this mentality years ago.

I will wait until Thursday to tell you of the changes I have planned for RJsCorner and for MyArtsySide.