New Beginnings . . .

Well, here we are again, at the beginning of a new year! Folks are planning New Year’s Eve celebrations, buying the pork & sauerkraut or black-eyed peas and collard greens for ‘lucky’ New Years dinners.  Guys are setting up marathon college football bowl parties with dozens of their closest friends, and in some cities, like Philadelphia PA, hundreds of grown men and women are putting the finishing touches on mammoth sequins & feather costumes for the city’s annual Mummer’s Day parade! New Years weekend is a big party time in most of the US.