A Clean Start for 2009

This is January 1, 2009. As we wash off the dust of 2008, we recall that not all trails we've traveled have been happy ones for others. We're lucky. We're still on the road and in one piece (after some mid-year mending). Gasoline is a little cheaper and the times a little stranger. We find that the cost of optimism is still a relative bargain as opposed to the sad song of defeatists. We paraphrase the state motto of South Caroline: While we roll, we hope

Happy New Year