Happy New Year!

So here we are on the doorstep of another year, an election year, an eating-and-drinking year, and it dawns warm and sunny with a plate of Virginica oysters and sauvignon blanc at Steelhead Diner.

Resolutions and predictions? Regrets for 2011? In this tell-all, share-all, bare-your-soul world, I'll keep those private. Except this: do more and better work, swim against tide if necessary, battle against the cut-rate and phony. Get rid of clutter, stay focused, pay full price.