Project Appreciation: A Different Approach to New Year’s Resolutions

Project Appreciation: A Different Approach to New Year’s Resolutions
Kids love to receive mail—why not send a letter to the kids in your family every week? Shutterstock
Jeff Minick
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It’s that time when many of us, after ringing in the New Year by partying, wearing funny hats, blowing on various noisemakers, and staying up until midnight to watch the ball drop in Times Square, are making resolutions.
If we Google “common New Year’s resolutions,” we find that nearly all these lists have the following items in common: lose weight, exercise more, save money or spend less money, quit smoking, get organized, and learn a new skill.
Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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