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Praying that I can do a better job of living this this week than I have been.

Newsworthy

I'm stuck down in southern Georgia this week for work, so I figured I could hammer out at least one blog post while I'm down here. I've thought about making this post's theme more of a regular occurrence, so we'll see. As most of you know, I'm a news junkie. I even have the t-shirt from The Newseum. {As a side note, next time you're in the Nation's capital, go. Totally worth it.} I would love to have the time to sit down every morning, drink a pot of coffee and cull through multiple hard-copy newspapers. Alas, my life right now doesn't exactly allow for that, so I rely on various internet sources for my fix. I'm a big fan of The Daily Beast's Cheat Sheet. Not that I'm too lazy to hunt the stories down, but having it in one concise list with links is super helpful. I also count on my quite-varied Twitter feed too. One thing I've recently discovered is Vanity Fair's VF Daily. What more could I ask for than topics that interest me written by {usually} great writers.

This kind of brings me back to what was the original premise of this post: things that have caught my eye this week that I thought I'd pass along.

• Sargent Shriver passed away yesterday. Both Sargent, and his wife Eunice, have left behind wonderful legacies in the Peace Corp and Special Olympics, respectively. I thought this piece by Maureen Orth (Tim Russert's wife) was lovely and tender. I was in the car when she was on Morning Joe talking about Sarge, and what a wonderful testament she gave to his life.
• This clip from The Colbert Show is funny because it's true. I'm with Mika - I definitely have Palin fatigue! 

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Hope you're having a good week!

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

{Martin Luther King, Jr.}

Happy New Year!

2010 has come and gone, and 2011 is here. There certainly was a lot of good that happened last year (friends got married, had babies (or found out they're expecting babies), I got to go on a wonderful trip to Italy with a fabulous group of young kids), but I must say, for the most part, I'm happy to close the book on last year. For all its good, it definitely was tough and challenging at times too.

I must say, this was one of the best New Year's weekends that I can recall. It was relatively low-key and filled with good friends. Great dinner out at one of my favorite restaurants with a best friend from college, ringing in the new year with a champagne toast and Ryan Seacrest at one of my favorite bars downtown, and a Gator win to send Urban off into his early retirement yesterday. Hopefully that peacefulness will carry over for the next 12 months.

I haven't really decided on my 'resolutions' yet, but there are things that I would like to accomplish in 2011. My big one is to take better care of myself - not only physically, but emotionally and spiritually. I let stress dominate my life for the better half of 2010 - mostly related to work. I need to learn to let go of that - or at least learn to manage it better. Whatever you resolve to do - or not do - in the new year, I wish you the best of luck in accomplishing what you set out to do. This quote came across my Twitter feed yesterday, and I loved its sentiment: "May 2011 be your best year yet, but your worst to come."