‘‘Yesterday it was my birthday. I hung one more year on the line.
I should be depressed. My life’s a mess. But I’m having a good time.”
Paul Simon
I tend to think of that song by Paul Simon, Have a Good Time, around birthdays and around year’s end. So we’re all about to hang one more on the line. But what does that mean?
I’m not a big one for New Year’s resolutions, but I do believe in going back over the year just passed, not for nostalgia, but for the same reason it would pay to go back immediately over






