We don’t get too hung up on New Year’s Resolutions.
Why? Well, we don’t want to be like those soon-to-be dropouts at the gym who take our slot in spinning class and create treadmill traffic jams for the first three weeks of January.  You know, the kind of people who harbor big “I’m joining the gym and going everyday” plans, spawned by holiday overeating and a few too many trips to the champagne fountain on NYE.
Because we don’t aspire to be like them, we’ve set 2008 goals well within our reach, such as the following: 
1. To keep eating chocolate and pastry regularly, and then going to the …read more

“Auld Lang Syne,” champagne, and ball-dropping (not that kind! Unless you come in from the cold . . .) are just a few weeks away. Know what that means, kiddos?
It’s New Year’s Resolution time! And in 2008, yours truly is aiming higher than a pre-rehab Lindsay Lohan.
The goal: To have dinner with our favorite re-signed free agents, Red Sox players Curt Schilling and Mike Lowell. Significant others included, natch.
The reason: Schilling is the man behind the Legendary Bloody Sock of 2004, a highlight in Red Sox lore. Lowell was the 2007 World Series MVP. And both proved to Beantown that a fatter paycheck wasn’t …read more