Across The Fence: ... and a Happy New Year to all of you

In the seven days between Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve most of us will, at times, find ourselves reflecting upon the events of the past year and looking forward to the possibilities of the new.

Jan. 1, 2015, was for a brief moment a blank page, a clean slate, an untraveled frontier of new beginnings and unlimited possibilities.

Many of us start each new year with eager anticipation of what might lay ahead, and others may dread the coming months. Each of us have differing circumstances and what may be an opportunity of new beginnings for some may be just another day in an unfinished jour...