Making new year’s resolutions and writing them down in my diary was one of the joys I cherished while growing up. I stopped making new year’s resolutions after going through two major surgeries (open heart and brain) in my late twenties because it seemed pointless to make yearly resolutions in the face of what I saw as the precariousness of life. Daily and monthly survival was what I was hoping to sustain. Now many years have passed, and I have lived a relatively healthy life, though the weekly hospital visit has been a hassle. More >