Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Here are some websites and applications that may help you keep your resolutions a little longer into 2013.
The New Year’s resolution is a time-honored tradition. Make the resolve on Dec. 31 and very often the resolution is trashed and a fail by the end of Jan. 1. Technology is here to help us feeble humans make our resolutions and do our best to keep them. Online tech site Mashable.com offers five apps to help people be more successful at achieving their goals in 2013. Whether it’s leading a healthier lifestyle, saving money or getting organized, there’s an app for that. Learn more about helpful apps in the Mashable story. In addition, here are some other apps and or websites that can help make achieving goals and fulfilling resolutions more interesting and attainable. DailyMile.com – Share your runs, bike rides or other workouts in this …
Parents, Patch wants to hear from you on the questions that get families talking.
Welcome to Hey Mom and Dad—a weekly feature in which we ask our Facebook fans to share their views on parenting. Every week, we get the conversation started by taking a look back at a question we asked parents the week before on Patch Facebook pages from around the western suburbs. Each new year, people vow to make a fresh start for themselves or loved ones. With recent gun violence in the news, some parents have told us they plan to cut back on their kids' consumption of violent movies or video games. Others may want to eat more family dinners together or have their kids spend more time outside. This brings us to this week's question: Take a look at what Patch users throughout the western suburbs had to say and join the conversation in …
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Share your resolution on Patch.
It's a new year and an opportunity for a fresh start. Patch wants to know, what's your New Year's resolution for 2013? Whether you're planning to eat healthier, give back to the community, pursue new hobbies or just find some time for yourself, we want to hear about it. So go ahead, share your resolutions in the comments below. Happy New Year! Get news alerts and Facebook updates from these Lincoln-Way Patch sites:
Friday, December 30, 2011
You know what you want to improve in 2012. What should everyone else work on?
The world's whirled itself back into roughly the same position it was 365 days ago, so it's time to make pledges to improve our lives. I've got my own list, which mainly involves the gym, fast food and confrontation (I've been avoiding the wrong ones), but here's a list of resolutions other people should make, culled from my own curmudgeonly self and my equally curmudgeonly friends. Read, enjoy, comment on them and add your own other-people-resolutions below. Suggest resolutions for the school districts, the village and other Mokena stakeholders.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
What should the school districts resolve for the new year? What about the village board? Sound off on this wish list for 2012.
What should Mokena School District 159 and Summit Hill 161 resolve for the new year? What about the village board? What about Mokena Patch? Tell us. With 2012 approaching and your true love up to the four calling birds on your Christmas shopping list, it's time for some resolutions. While you personally vow to hit the gym more and the Dunkin' less, tell us in the comments section of this story what you think Mokena's civic leaders should do to make the year a great one. Keep it as light and positive as you can. It should be more on the lines of "Mokena Patch should resolve to dig deeper into issues" than "Mokena Patch is the worst garbage on the planet and I hate it and editor Paul Dailing's hair is stupid!" * There's a whole Internet out …
Denise Du Vernay
5:55 pm on Friday, December 30, 2011
Ooh! Ooh! Let me add two: Stop saying "It is what it is." And be more civil on comment threads. more ›