2019! A Brand-New Year
The new year begins soon, and it got me thinking about traditions. From the earliest I can remember, my mom always put a loaf of bread and some money on our table. The bread promised we'd have plenty of food, and the money insured having enough of it to live on for the coming year. At midnight, we'd eat some pickled herring because it was a lucky food, and later on, my husband and I added drinking some bubbly with it. People all over the world eat foods they believe will brin