Hoping to excite student interest in our reading center, I asked each teacher to write a New Year‘s resolution on a special form and send it to me.

After I posted the resolutions on the bulletin board in the reading center, one young teacher stopped by, looked at them for a few minutes, and then left abruptly. Passing two teachers on their way in, she stormed, "My resolution isn‘t posted - and mine was one of the first ones in!" I couldn‘t help but overhear, and the tone of her voice sent me flying to my desk in search of a misplaced resolution.

Looking rapidly through stacks of papers, I uncovered hers. It read, "I resolve not to let little things upset me. "