Something special about January 1

Today is roasted fresh hen turkey day. January 1, 2006. Same day, 1980, I got married in Marin County, CA. See happy couple a few years later. No way to predict what this New Year's Day might bring. National hangover day? That seems poetically just.

Just like that day in 1980, it is raining and has been raining for days. Raining too hard to cook a turkey outside on the Weber grill. So she is stuffed with onion wedges and garlic cloves and lemon pepper, and rubbed with olive oil, shoved easily into my new black sealed- top oven, I so rarely use.

I like to think about how I got here and certainly getting married that day was a significant decision along the way. Always will be a special day, New Year's Day, for me.