Even if you don't like setting New Year's resolutions, many of us still tend to see the new year as a clean slate, like a new day we can use to start over. We can hit the refresh button on our lives and start to do things differently.

This is long overdue. I hoped the problem would go away, but it only seems to be getting worse. It is a slow lingering drawn-out death. The word "awesome" used to mean something.

"Why aren't you awesomer?" It was such a direct question that it made me smile, and when my client asked me what I was smiling about I told him and he asked me what I meant.

Mrs. Corcoran told me that at least three of the peers want to be special education teachers, another four have expressed interest in occupational, speech or physical therapy. And another student wants to be pediatric neurologist, focusing on autism.