I resolve to not have a typical resolution list because I think less in resolutions and more in goals and aspirations.

1. Be More Positive – about everything in my life. I work on this each year, I think!
2. Take Better Care of Myself – this is part of why I am going to be moving away from Shape of a Box (well and technical issues) as well as still doing work with other writers but just a little bit fewer of requests that come my way.
3. Spend Even More Time with Friends and Family – online and in person. There are definitely some non-evils to social networking.
4. Continue Submitting My 3rd Chapbook Zombie Girl. Would love to see it accepted in 2010 even if published in 2011.
5. Try Putting Together 2nd Full Length Manuscript – I have a goal to wait until I have 36 individual poems published before I try the 2nd manuscript again. You could argue I have reached that but I have my own way of doing math. Ha! Think I want to wait till about April or so to really work on this.
6. Have Fun Finishing Proofs of First Full Length Collection and Giving Readings for It – Paper House should be out at the end of March and I have readings scheduled starting with April 2010. So looking forward to having a book with a spine. I love my chapbooks but there is something about that perfect bound look of a book that makes me feel like a kid!
7. Start Submitting Photography – I have done quite a bit of amateur photography but I think I want to start submitting pictures to literary magazines in 2010.
8. Walk More, Eat Less Junk – yeah, I’m not setting goals for loosing weight just more ways taking better care of myself.
9. Keep Writing and Sending Work Out – I put these hand in hand because sending work out is a large part of my revision process. I like submitting work at least once a week and hopefully attempting at least one new poem a week.
10. Track Things! – I have been getting more and more organized but this year I want to keep better track of what I read (because it influences what you write!) and I need to keep better track of Freelance kind of expenses such as number of books sold etc.

So a lot of my goals and aspirations seem to feed back onto each other but even though I started the year sick, I am still looking forward to 2010. Cheers to all of you!