New Year's Day

New Year’s Day/ New Year’s Eve Happy New Year Everyone! As we go into 2018, we look to new horizons and opportunities. The best time to start a new beginning is now. Here in the U.S. we pop the champagne and watch the ball drop; whereas, in England, the first guest after the New Year brings good fortune. “The English custom for welcoming New Year is full of hospitality and warmth. They believe that the first guest for the year would bring fortune for them. He should be a male, should enter through

and people around the world cheered on the coming of the new year. For most, a new year equals new opportunities, improvement, and overall, hopes for a better year than the previous one. I was one of the people that thought this on that particular New Years. 2015 hadn’t been the greatest year of my life, so that meant 2016 would have to be better. As much as I wanted that and wished it were true, it wasn’t at all. On New Year’s Day 2016, my grandpa was admitted into the hospital, and the months

special. People often said that wherever my grandfather went he always made new friends or enemies. This explains his personality perfectly, he always made an everlasting impression, not afraid to voice his opinions. When I was around him he was always telling stories about his days of playing minor league baseball under the Philadelphia Phillies and Minnesota Twins organizations or his days of being a K9 trooper for the New Hampshire State Police. He was someone that I admired and loved being around

Happy New Year’s Eve everyone! Now going back to my previous blog, I promised to start off each blog with a story from my life, so here goes nothing. Now there was a time where, we were all kids. For some of you that might have been ten years ago, and for others of you, that might have been last year aha! There was a time when I was about 7 years old. Now, after my parents divorced, my mother, my sisters and I lived in an apartment complex. My younger sister, Alexis (age 6), and I were quick to

Chicken, yeah I’ll show you chicken. In case you haven’t been stalking me as of fifteen seconds ago, I was just dared to go hit on this girl because I may or may not have been checking her out. I mean what do you want me to do she is pretty attractive. Taking my stroll over to the beautiful girl’s table, I definitely began to have second thoughts. Moving closer and closer I could see every bit of detail in her hair, her skin, everything. She had a face of an angel. I was definitely having second

New Year Holiday between the United States and Vietnam New Years is an exciting holiday in many countries. It marks a new period of time with the pure and pristine beginning for individuals. Every country has a unique cultural celebration and specific traditions depending on where you live. However, there is a big difference between how Asian people and Western people celebrate New Year. The three most noticeable differences are in the preparation, travel and length of the holiday will be

Jacobs found her new home to be a happy one for “no toilsome or disagreeable duties were imposed upon [her]” (7). Jacobs’s mistress was “so kind to [her] that [she] was always glad to do her bidding, and proud to labor for her” (7). Needless to say, Jacobs and her mistress

My grandparents were both born and raised in Cidra, Puerto Rico and so were their three children. They wanted to start a new beginning. Though the exact date is forgotten my grandparents moved to Cleveland, Ohio sometime in 1989. My grandparents were very poor when they lived in Puerto Rico since there were not many job opportunities and barely any resources, my grandparents could barely make ends meet.They wanted to give their children to have more opportunities and resources that they didn't have

Happy New Year! As we start things off here in 2016 the tone has already been set for an “interesting” year. We have the DOL still fighting the ENTIRE industry as a whole, you have the market taking a major nose-dive which follows major sells offs in the Chinese markets, you have mortality tables dictating new rates and payouts…can we take a breather already?! Now, let’s do away with the scare tactics and talk about reality...We will ALWAYS have something going on that could impact the insurance

The woman I plan to wed is smart, gorgeous, funny, hardworking, and sweeter than her favorite Splenda. She also has a four-year-old son, who is a great kid. He is smart, well-adjusted, and precocious. But it's obvious that I need to keep some New Year's resolutions in mind as I prepare for step-fatherhood in 2012. 1.) Become more comfortable with assertive fathering. As the non-parent, it is easy to sit back and let the parent step in when the kid gets out of line. Certainly, and especially as a