Your New Year's Resolution

New Year’s resolutions are for chumps. I don’t believe in them.

But I have a simple resolution for those who don't share my perspective. It is easier than exercising, losing weight, or vowing to read Anna Karenina. 

Repeat after me: “I resolve always to leave my name when commenting on Peter’s blog.” Then do it. Every time.

I have previously written that it drives me bonkers to receive anonymous comments, particularly because I know most of the people who read Vertes’Verities. Only a sadist would torture me by concealing their identity, especially when leaving crude comments or agreeing with my husband over me (both of which happened in response to last Sunday's post).

Last August, I received a long anonymous comment in response to my post about not enjoying work. The tirade included the abbreviation “IMHO.” Really? Is your humble opinion so humble that you can’t even reveal your identity?

When I read anonymous responses like “Only you,” “Thanks for a lesson,” or “Poor Joe,” my head spins, wondering who the hell knows me so well yet not well enough to stop hiding behind anonymity.

Anonymous comments make me a prime candidate for the rubber room. Every time I encounter anonymity, I feel myself inching toward the last scene in Hitchcock's Psycho, where Norman Bates is in a straitjacket and vexed by a fly.

As we enter 2026, I resolve to keep things as interesting as possible here on Vertes’Verities. Now, do me a solid and pull back that cloak of anonymity.

Oh, and Happy New Year.