Editorials

This newspaper should have hit your mailbox around Jan. 8 or so, which means that many New Year's resolutions are headed for the rocky shoals of failure.
Like any good American, I've given this a lot of thought and prioritized one key question: how can I profit from this? Also, if it's not too much trouble or inconvenient, could I help people?
I'm starting a new business. My model is this: if you've made a New Year's resolution that you can't keep -- even though you knew good and well you weren't going to work out for two hours every day -- you contact me.

Spending a little time with my oldest niece and her family recently truly offered an "aha" moment - realizing just how fragile the human attention span is - and how much (or little) it takes to catch (or divert) our attention.
My little great-niece, Lane, who is not yet crawling or walking, had a little rough start with lots and lots of crying for her first few months, as many infants do while adjusting to formulas - and all of the sudden changes of coming into this world.

This photo was taken in January, 1968. A different version of the photo published in The Graphic on Jan. 25, 1968. Barbara Strickland (now Barbara Harris) was ready to challenge anybody to a snowball fight. A light snow had fallen closing schools. Barbara, a junior at Northern Nash, and other students were out and about to play in the snow.