I started this year with my 50th birthday. I had just broken my nose, and my back had gone out for our annual ski trip to Vt. xmas week, there were money issues and bad thoughts and fear so I decided 2009 would be my year of positive thinking. I would write one positive thought down every day in a new journal I’d gotten for my bday. However it so quickly turned into such tough year (for so many people) that after about Jan 15, the notebook remained as empty and white as a freshly snowed field waiting for footprints.