That First Week Of The Year
The first week of January is always an interesting one. Friends family and neighbors are trying to settle into new resolutions, school is starting up again, it's almost always cold, and you feel a sense of disbelief that you're in a new year. When the clock struck Midnight on Sunday morning I couldn't believe it was 2017. A new year full of promise and hope and new adventures at every turn. There'll be new people to meet, new places to go, and new things to try. You don't notice it now, but at year's end a lot could be different. That's kind of how 2016 went for me, with the year starting out having me living in Eveleth under my parent's roof, still in high school and running a business, and ending with me living in Fargo by myself, moving through my first semester of college, and volunteering for a radio station. A lot can and will change in 365/366 days, and it's up to us to either embrace that change or drop it altogether. That'...