We managed to stay up till after midnight New Year's Eve. I was thinking about the life progression of how things go. When we were young we had parties and would have to go to bed to get people to go home. Then we got to where nothing but the cat lasted past 10:30. A few years we went to the Mayor's party.

Lastly, now I am glad when I am not invited anywhere so I don't have to decide between friends and my chair. Besides, the odds of a drunk driver running over my chair is slim! I hope you had a safe, fun celebration and 2019 is good to you.

My dad, both of my brothers, Anne and I went to thre...