In the movie, Charlie Brown was asked what his New Year’s resolution was. With typical candor, he answered that instead of dreading the whole year he was dreading only one day at a time.
PUBLISHED January 11, 2018
Jane has earned three advanced degrees and had several fulfilling careers as a librarian, rehabilitation counselor and college teacher. Presently she does freelance writing. Her articles include the subjects of hearing loss and deafness, service dogs and struggling with cancer. She has been a cancer survivor since 2010.
She has myelodysplastic syndrome, which is rare, and would love to communicate with others who have MDS.
I was relaxing and wanted to do something mindless over the holidays. I decided to watch a children’s movie I had never seen called, “Happy New Year, Charlie Brown.” I love this cartoon and the characters in it. They were a large part of my childhood.She has myelodysplastic syndrome, which is rare, and would love to communicate with others who have MDS.
Let me digress a little bit and say that I was a former children’s librarian for 10 years. One of my most important tasks as a professional was to select well-written and beautifully illustrated children’s books. I was amazed how the children’s authors managed to teach such great life lessons in their short little picture books which were typically under 500 words. Later, I joined an international group called Society for Children’s Writers and Illustrators and discovered how difficult it is to write and illustrate a simple children’s book. Only 2 percent of submitted copies ever get published by major publishing houses. So it would follow that a fun children’s movie would also teach an important lesson.
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