I’ve never been one to make New Year’s Resolutions, but then again I’ve never been one to change my habits – or my life, for that matter – in any large degree. But there comes a time, post-narrowly-averted Mayan/Zombie Apocalypse, when maybe a little change is in order.

On the personal side, and I’m only putting it in print here to hold myself to it, I’ve vowed to read more (actual books, not just iPad blogs and magazines), get myself to the gym (payroll’s been auto-deducting my membership since early December; it’s probably time I made good on that one), and be more organized. Oh, who I am kidding? I am more organized.

On the professional side, you’re viewing one of my 2013 resolutions right here – to write in my own newspaper more often. I got into this business a couple decades ago because I fancied myself a writer; somewhere along the way I allowed the administrative portion of this job to whittle away at that. This weekly column and my (almost) daily website blog are both steps in that direction, but I also hope to drop into the reporting fray a little more often (got my feet wet, again, last summer with that whole judge’s race thing, maybe you read about that?) and I fervently plan to flex the paper’s editorial muscle more frequently on this very page.