What I learned/realized/acknowledged in 2009

• Pomegranates are the most overrated fruit.

• The delayed lead in newspaper writing is rarely called for; few reporters can carry it off.

• Reincarnation to the nth degree doesn't always produce Gandhis and Mother Teresas. Sometimes you just get a person who knows how to game the system to get what they want. 

• Listen to more Cowboy Junkies.

• Eat more processed sugar.

• Rare steak, not ambrosia, is the food of the gods. A little Heinz 57 sauce increases the joy.

• In pronunciation, there is nothing wrong and many things right with the flat "I."

• High tenor is the ultimate hillbilly singing voice.

• Love quickly, but watch your back. 

• Nothing in this world is funnier than a good LOL cat.

• Forgive all; forget nothing.