EveryNew Year’s Eve, after the kids go to bed, Brianand Iread to each other from our journals. We’ve been doing this for 13 years. It’s a way of reflecting on the past year, and thinking about what we want to do in the year ahead. (I know what you’re thinking. Your husband keeps a journal?Yup…he’s cool like that.)

Our annual ritual was cut shortthis year. We have teenagers now, and they go to bed late, (and we’re old, and we don’t want to stay up until midnight) but we read enough to see that...