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Greeson: Here’s betting on the top Chattanooga stories for 2019

Staff file photo by Doug Strickland / Community members react to an answer during a Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority public input session in October about a proposed sewage treatment plant in Ooltewah.
Staff file photo by Doug Strickland / Community members react to an answer during a Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority public input session in October about a proposed sewage treatment plant in Ooltewah. Staff file photo by Doug Strickland / Community members react to an answer during a Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority public input session in October about a proposed sewage treatment plant in Ooltewah.

By Jay Greeson 4 min read

So, how’s your year been?

What is the proper etiquette for saying “Happy New Year” in terms of time? Today is Jan. 3. Is that too late? Do you get the whole month? Do you get until the end of June?

Anyway, Happy New Year. And know that you can count me among the folks happy to raise a glass as 2018 left the building. Good riddance.

photo Jay Greeson

I’m not a resolution guy. Don’t really see the need to put life goals on an arbitrary day simply because the calendar flipped. But if that’s your cup of tea, good luck.

That’s not to say I am without traditions – and some may find them silly – as the new year starts. First, as a family, we write down the thing we want to forget the most from the previous year and throw it into the fire. One of my pieces of paper simply said, “Writing eulogies” after a year in which I wrote three, including my father’s.