SL_EditorsNote_1_19_EditorsNote 1 / 14 / 19 3 : 37 PM Page 2 editor’s note Different Story become someone else if we so choose . From my experience , For someone like me , the winter holidays are the most powerful stories — fiction and nonfiction alike — involve equal parts blessing and curse , all wrapped in people who have endured some long , arduous journey and one shiny , bow - topped package . While I treasure then emerged a different , stronger person as a result of the the time spent with my family and close friends , people they met and the experiences they had along the way . force me to sit in a room and make small talk The theme of change is evident in many of the stories in about the successes and failures of our local this month’s issue . Perhaps a relationship that once seemed sports teams or what people are binging on infallible has reached its end , and now it’s time to start over . Netflix , and I want to scream . Maybe it’s time to commit to new habits to improve the self , in Now here we are , at the outset of the cold , dark winter regard to finances , career , or physical and mental health . Or months , and I couldn’t be more excited . To me , winter is the perhaps now , at the beginning of a new year , you’re about to season of quiet and comfort . The season conjures images of embark on some other significant life change — at the bottom ice hockey , fingerless gloves , and thick books to get lost in , of of the mountain , so to speak , readying yourself for the climb warm blankets , carafes of hot coffee , and bowls of hearty , ahead , envisioning yourself triumphant at the cloudless peak . aromatic soups . It’s the season of reflection , hibernation , and What story are you looking to tell in 2019 ? slow transformation — a butterfly in its chrysalis . The concept of change has been on my mind a lot this past year . I find it terribly comforting that , no matter who we are at Bill Donahue this moment in time , we can adjust course and essentially Editor Reitano Paul by Photograph SUBURBANLIFEMAGAZINE.COM JANUARY 2019 8 |