MARTIN AND ST. LUCIE COUNTIES – All over the world, people of every nation and culture mark the passing of one year to the next in hopes of having a better new year ahead than the one now in the rearview mirror.
Those celebrations are frequently accompanied by a desire to discard negative or unhealthy habits and develop new, healthier ones for the next 12 months.
Now commonly referred to as New Year’s resolutions, such end-of-the-year commitments have been around for centuries in both the Old and the New worlds, with some of the earliest references to them dating back to Scotland and Ireland…