The irrepressible Susan Higginbotham and I are doing it again. This time it's the New Year's resolutuins of some of the famous and infamous and perhaps a couple fictional characters as well.
New Year's Resiolutions
Brian Boru: Fewer wives, more sons. That's the recipe for a peaceful united Ireland.
Lady Godiva: To work out more often.
Harold Godwinson: To let the fyrd go home early for harvest this year -- 1066.
William of Normandy: To get in touch with my Inner Bastard.
William Rufus: To get more time off from being king, like spending more time hunting in the New Forest.
Brother Cadfael: To look into $4 prescriptions at Wal*mart.
Robin Hood: To tell my girlfriend I'm not the Marian kind.
Henry II: To spend more time with my wife and sons.
Richard I: To pay a visit to that place over the Channel, whatever it's called. Oh, that's right. England!
John: To schedule an appointment with that public relations guy.
Robert the Bruce: T o spend more time on the Web.
Hugh le Despenser the elder: To be more strict with little Hugh.
Richard II: To get rid of that Henry Bolingbroke fellow before he really becomes a pest.
Margaret of Anjou: To assert myself more.
George, Duke of Clarence: To get along better with my brother Ned.
Perkin Warbeck: To find myself.
Thomas More: To complete my unfinished book so that posterity will know what a truly great guy Richard III was.
Richard Sharpe: To see Boney.
Nathan Bedford Forrest: To train my horses not to be afraid of ducks.
Nan Hawthorne: To get to know Kit Moss even better than I do now.
Happy 2013!
This post was originally published 12/31/08
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