Goodbye last year, ring in the new year! It's been almost a month since my last blog post, post-NaNoWriMo, so this a long, but good one, and...it's New Year's Eve! The perfect time to reflect on the outgoing and the incoming, made even better by an afternoon walk around the lake where I live. Thirty-cold degrees two hours from moonrise. Crisp, windless air numbed my cheeks, nosetip, and balm-streaked lips. A thick whiff of pollution-grey from an clunky red Chevy diesel filled