Tag: New Year's

It's Hershey's turn to come clean with his New Year's resolutions: More Proust, less TV.

The Romans celebrated the New Year much as we do with feasting and music. Being noisy and boisterous was a good way to scare off evil spirits.

When I was in my twenties, the holidays meant a frantic race from party to party. They were usually unsatisfying, even alienating, experiences.

There is no astronomical reason to begin the calendar year in January. The custom dates back to the Romans, who set the New Year to begin in the month of January, which celebrates the two-faced god Janus — one face looking back into the past, while the other peered forward into the future.