I am old fashioned in quite a number of ways, one of which is my love of a paper wall calendar, and few things make me feel as excited, and dare I write “giddy,” as the act of turning the page to a fresh new month…It starts with the first and it leaves me with 28, 30, or 31 possible days of ANYTHING I can imagine!

I have made terrible choices and bad decisions, pretty much for my entire life, and indeed since my very early teens and evidently didn’t learn any (or many) valuable lessons from them as I continued well into my middle-aged years…those bad choices and terrible decisions have followed me, tagged along with me, like a shadow, through all my good experiences and successes, sort of always whispering into my ear from behind me, “hey you, you can’t get away from us.”

BUT a new calendar page, a brand new month, fills me with a bit of bewildering anticipation for “what’s next or new?” and in the very best way. It’s rather likely I will soon agree to another dumb thing, maybe even today, or by the weekend a compromise that I will soon regret, but for now, this morning, before work, with the possibility of all that is fabulous in store for me, looking ahead, I am filled with joy and promise. In a world filled with bad, sad, news that makes me mad, there is one little action that brings light to my spirit, ease to my regrets…here is November, one of my favorite months of the year, and here is a selection of thirty days in which you can, if you think clearly, and choose smartly, move your life in a positive direction of your own doing. Join me gentle reader, and turn the page…