Retroactive New Year's Resolutions
January, 1961
There is a bar in San Francisco where all the patrons are given party hats and noisemakers and, at midnight – every single day of every month – they celebrate the dawning of another new year. They shake hands and they kiss each other and they sing songs like Auld Lang Syne. The one thing they don't do is make resolutions. Frequency breeds perspective and they know better; resolutions are like women: many are made but few are kept. And, lik0e the kept woman, the demands of a kept resolution often...
