Tell us how you really feel about New Year's Resolutions, Phyllis McGinley!
Phyllis McGinley: "I'm not sure anyone over forty should make a resolution."
Being over 40, or even 60 since 60 is evidently the new forty, I have no problem ignoring any desire to make New Year's Resolutions. (Let's not even discuss what over 70 might be.)
Any further arguments against resolutions from the 1961 Pulitzer prize winning poet?
Phyllis McGinley: We promise to deprive ourselves of the trivial comforts that may be all that stand between us and frenzy. Coffee, for instance, or that martini before dinner...
Folly, folly, all folly! Those promises might stand a chance of being kept in June, say, with the spirits burgeoning along with roses and summer barbecues. In spring, when the year really begins. But in winter, no.
Applause, applause!!
No, I intend to spoil myself with every small comfort January 2021 will offer, although my comforts tend to run to fresh flowers and perfume and a good book rather than martinis. (Let's not talk about desserts here, either.)
I'm not about to turn down anyone else offering to spoil me, either.
No, siree, bring it on!
