A New Year

I'd like to say I've resolved to blog more in 2009. My hours spent in front of a computer at work seem to have zapped my energy for blogging.  Face it, the Godfather does a great job keeping friends, family and his VOX neighborhood up to date with his (better) photos, our foibles and life events.  Going forward my blogging niche is probably more about the journaling.  I like the creative (can I write something pithy, cogent and interesting?) part and the personal record (the fun in reading back over what was in my head some months past).

Google Zeitgeist serves as inspiration today.  Last night we were talking about the "things that stuck in your head or were on the tip of your tongue" during 2008.  Here's my stream of consciousness answer this morning mixed with some of the ones we thought of last night.

Noah Tafolla
Russian River Pinot Noir
Hummingbirds and Orioles
Ancient Dog Eutaw
Family in Oklahoma
Fried Oysters
Giant Trees
Barack Obama
Gin Rummy
In Treatment
The Bundestag at night
Sister Mary Aloysius
Bobby Flay
Over the Rhine
Mac Takes Over the Aerie
Undergraduate Science Education and Marion Wright Edelman 

Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small, The: Charting a Course for the Next Generation

Of course, the real 2009 resolution has to do (always) with those 15 pounds...but I sure hope to find some more peace, energy and inspiration to blog a bit more in 2009, too!