Live Blog - The Orange Bowl!

Join us tonight at 8:30 p.m. for a Live Blog during tonight’s Orange Bowl between ACC champion Virginia Tech (9-4) and Big East champ Cincinnati (11-2).
The game is being broadcast nationally on Fox.
AFP editor Chris Graham will lead a live in-game discussion of the goings-on with analysis and commentary. Please feel free to join in with your own thoughts and observations throughout.

Jim Bishop | The pause that refreshes: Keeping pace with the human race

2008 is now another chapter in life’s annals.
Seems like just yesterday, I opened my 2008 Dave Barry desk calendar and put it in the space reserved for such important data/date managers on the kitchen counter. Now, I’m about to discard (actually, recycle) the plastic housing that held the sacred writ - and helped jumpstart each morning - as I ponder what 2009 may have in store. Read more

David Reynolds | Why write?

Because it is hard. And talk is easy. That’s one reason for these opinion pieces of writing I have done during most of my 14 years in paradise. Read more

The FlyLady | The New Year

Here it is, a brand-new year, with all the promise of a fresh start that comes with it. At FlyLady we have learned that new beginnings can happen any time we choose, and it doesn’t take a new day, new week, new month or even a new year to start over. That doesn’t change the fact that we still love new beginnings and starting fresh. Read more