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'Tis the Season | Holiday Creep | Renewing the Christmas Spirit | Mementoes of Christmases Past | The Sounds of Christmas Music | Better to Win Than to Receive | Myth Busters | Holiday TV’s On-Screen Warmth | Get Ready for Ralphie | Uncle Ed Ruins Christmas | Office Christmas | The Promise of a New Year

The Promise of a New Year
By Tim McNellie 

Samuel Beckett’s play “Krapp’s Last Tape” is about a man who has kept an audio diary of every year of his life. In the opening scene, Krapp sits listening to a tape recording of himself 30 years ago. The young voice on the tape laments the fact that he can’t stop eating bananas – he loves the things and just can’t put them down. Then he tells himself that he has to cut them out. But as he sits listening, the now elderly Krapp has already stuffed one banana into his mouth, thrown the peel on the ground, and has a second tucked into his waistband.

We’re just weeks away from that time of the year when many of us will make resolutions of our own, when we’ll decide that, despite the odds and past evidence, now is the time we can finally become the people we really want to be. New Year’s Day is eternal hope in holiday form, the one time each year when you convince yourself that that that Arby’s, beer, and television-loving person you’ve spent years developing into can finally become a fit and refined man of letters and good taste – the person you know that you really have inside. And though similar efforts may have fallen flat in the past, as evidenced by that closet full of old fitness equipment and the bookshelf sprinkled with dust-covered diet books, there’s something about being human that makes us think that this is the year when things will be different.

And maybe for a few it will be. Those driven souls will sweat, starve, and browbeat themselves all the way to the greener grass on the other side of the hill. As for the rest of us, we'll try again after this next banana...

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Celebrating the season. Toni Holiday and her husband Joe have decorated their front door with the warmth of a classic wreath. Designed by Cynthia Cobb of the Cobb Collection of Peters Township

SPECIAL FOCUS: HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE

Better to Receive...

Last minute gift ideas, fantasy presents, kitchen gadgets, great toy ideas and many more suggestions to stimulate your gift-giving imagination

PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIOS

Financial By Philip C. Henry
Home Remodeling By Barry Novisel
Physical Therapy
By Scott D. Schafer
Healthcare
By Dr. Dennis J. Courtney
Fitness
By Pam Kamensky
Chiropractic
By Dr. Paul Kohler
Accounting
By Robert L. Omer
Coping With Loss
By Aaron Beinhauer
Eyecare By Brad Childs
Senior Living
By Jean Morelli
College Visits
By Jennifer Cekus

School Lunch, Revisited
The cafeteria represents a different culinary experience for today's hungry kids

How Shop 'n Save Makes a Difference
It's pre-made sandwich program earns the store a community thanks every Friday

Sports Champions

The Artist's Sole
Turning inspiration into flashy footwear is paying off for one local artist

Lady of the Lanes
SF senior Tammy Veneski finds that bowling success comes naturally

School Fitness Center Open to Public  

New School Board as of 12/3/2007

School Calendar

Little Lions' Preschool Registration

South Fayette Presents Proposed Preliminary Budget

Paying it Forward

Lights, Camera, Good Nutrition!

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