Erin Miller

The beginning of a new year encouraged me to look through my journals from the last year. I keep a journal, even though one of my friends said “keeping a journal is one step above cutting yourself…especially if it contains poems about despair.” (I found that gem of a quote in one of these journals.) The good news is that I am not much good at poetry.
I haven’t exactly determined my resolutions for this year yet, I am not sure if I even always make resolutions, but looking through my journal, I did find resolutions from last year. There were three:
1. Laugh more — I feel like this has been accomplished. I was aided by some meditation classes I took through school last spring. I feel like it can be safely crossed off the list given that during my three week Christmas vacation, I laughed so hard that I cried, twice.
2. Go to one museum a month — This has been a dismal failure. I have been to some museums, but far less than my goal. So far I have been to the MOMA, the Museum of Sex, and the Museum of Natural history (am I forgetting any that people have been to with me?) In the next 18 weeks I want to be sure to get to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Ellis Island. — Anyone know of any other must-sees in NYC?
3. Take a picture of the George Washington Bridge lit up on a holiday — I did this one, but it really didn’t turn out, so I will have to try to catch it again, I guess that will be my first resolution of 2009.