I generally do not make New Year's resolutions. I look at it like this, I am already hard on myself 365 days a year! I can choose to diet, save money, make art or spend more time with people I love on any day or month I choose. That said, I am not without a tradition friends. What I like to do is write a poem, usually, about looking forward with a bit of hope to the new calendar year. For 2017 I came up with a blog post that expressed the sentiment I stated above, which is that you don't only have the beginning of the calendar year to make changes. You have the power, the ruby slippers, to make fabulousness happen all the year long! That's 12 months, 365 days to make a change! So approaching 2018 at the end of this December I was thinking a lot about what I might write but honestly, I wasn't feeling much inspiration at all. Not one bit! Quite frankly, it had been quite a while since I had written a poem, period. I had not even managed