in the past 2 years, but I can't blame DKos. Without this place, perhaps I would have given up and become one of those disillusioned, disenfranchised non-voters.
But it did get intense, especially so in the last month leading up to the Nov. elections this year. Things have actually gotten to a tolerable level balancing work, family, leisure and Dkos since then -- I only check in once a day now. And it does get easier not to spastically keep checking once you step away from the keyboard for a few days.

My resolutions for the coming year are (of course!) to lose weight and get more activity in, especially outdoors. To plant some of my own vegetables in spring, and to be a better steward of the little piece of Earth that I live on -- it was sorely neglected last year, and it really is a lovely and restful place that I am very fortunate to be able to enjoy.

And thanks to Dkos and progressive talk radio and local activists that I now know exist, my lifelong resolution is never to allow myself to give in to the corporate media and their propoganda again. I may be Left, but Left is right and Right is wrong for the 90% of working class people, women, environmentalists, students, and most people whose ethnic heritage is not solely Northern European that comprise this great US of A. Never again will I sit back and do nothing when fascism comes slithering into my living room.