Dear Reader, it’s been too long since I reached out and touched you with a new post. You know I’m full of myself.  You should also know I don’t always take myself seriously.  So, as I sit down to write my New Year’s Resolutions, my hope is you’ll sit back, relax, and enjoy.  Here’s my game plan for 2014:

1. Win the Nobel Prize in Literature
2. Become the starting 2nd baseman for the San Francisco Giants
3. Receive an Academy Award for Best Screenplay
4. Save someone from dying
5. Change the tire of a complete stranger
6. Nurse a wounded animal back to health
7. Learn Italian
8. Tour Italy for 5 weeks with my dear wife
9. Hit the baseball hard every at bat
10. Make the routine play 100% of the time and the spectacular play most of the time
11. Read the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories for 2013
12. Break the full court press
13. Get my 1st hole-in-one and buy drinks all around
14. Exercise 5 times a week
15. Drink red wine 7 times a week
16. Cook something new every Sunday night
17. Live to eat
18. Eat to live
19. Win the Lottery
20. Free all animals in shelters
21. Fight racism
22. Help those in need
23. Get a standing ovation at Karaoke
24. Go to Mass on Easter and Christmas Eve and beg forgiveness for all my sins
25. Watch or play sports every single day

This should be a great year.  I better get cracking.  Ciao.