UPFRONT December 31, 2007 Issue

Do you do new?

STEVE GRAHAM, SENIOR MANAGING EDITOR

Where will you be at midnight on January 1, 2008? In front of your television, watching the 100th anniversary of the ball drop in Times Square? Asleep in your bed? Yelling the countdown to "Happy New Year!" and eating caviar at a fancy-dress ball?

Whether or not one chooses to make a big deal out of celebrating the coming year, it's hard not to get caught up in the momentary feeling of renewal—unblemished calendars and planners seem to promise a tempting leg up on adopting correspondingly fresh accomplishments and attitude adjustments.

But we all know that the New Year's spirit can be ephemeral. Once the clocks have done their thing, the fleeting midnight moment that has come to define so much is over for another year. And the daylight hours of January I can seem surprisingly uneventful, if not anticlimactic, as we wake up to the same scene and much the same circumstances we encountered the day before.

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