Imagine what the New Year could be like if everyone offered more grace to others, knowing that someday they might want that for themselves.

Of all the things in life that people might really want to delegate, losing weight has to be close to number one.

Let’s cut girls in tiaras some slack. With all the hoopla and outrage over cartoon heroines fighting evil in high heels and with a man at their side, you might think that Cinderella endorsed Trump over the weekend. In an era in which almost anything goes, it’s hard to understand how a little taffeta and a rags-to-riches backstory has offended so many who make a living in the headlines.

In the same month in which Sen. John McCain and Aretha Franklin passed away, my mother also died. My heart has ached for the family and friends of those two legends in a personal way.

The perks cover everything from a potentially better sex life to the ability to lose a few pounds and a sense of greater meaning in life.

Starbucks, which provided more than 175,000 of its employees at 8,000 stores with anti-bias training Tuesday afternoon, utilized more than a dozen videos and a 68-page booklet in the effort.

Whether you blame it on the French, the English, the Germans or Benjamin Franklin, the scourge of daylight saving time will strike at 2 a.m. Sunday and create havoc for the hapless American worker. And it all started as a joke.

So Americans are fat. At least that’s the running monologue playing out in more media outlets than we can completely ignore.

Since Donald Trump won the presidency in numbers that shocked everyone paid to know the math, the media has been frank in its assessment that they got a collected “F” on their homework.

I have the fondest memories of my mother cooking down bushels of tomatoes into the freshest and most amazing stewed tomatoes and canning them to capture the taste of summer.