Advice from a Small Town Girl

By LISE OTT

Happy New Year!

I'm a bit behind the times, as we're already into double-digit January dates. Fortunately, the temperatures have also been double-digit and without minus signs.

But the really, really good news is that the most depressing day of the year is behind us.

Now, I've always known that January is kind of tough, but it still surprised me last week when a national newscaster informed me that January 6 is the most depressing day of the year.

Well, it was this year, anyway.

It's apparently not so much the date as the day. It just so happened that the first (non-holiday) Monday...