A few resolutions for this brave new year, 2002:

• I will write something that will change the world. If this change is not immediate, irrevocable or earth-shattering, and if the only world it affects is my own, that will be enough. I will finish the stories that have stalled in my head. I will put pen to paper and craft new worlds from whole cloth. I will write or die trying.
• I will read more. My goal will be a new book every two weeks, give or take depending on length, averaging some two dozen for the year. I would like to read at least one new book every week, if not more, but I have a job and responsibilities, and I know myself too well to make promises like that.
• I will keep in touch with old friends, write letters, answer emails, remember birthdays. I will remember to thank others when they do the same.
• I will do something unexpected, I will do something that frightens me, and I will learn something new every day. I will be wiser when the year is through, and I will still have much to learn.