Depending on how one reads the cards and stars, we’ve entered into either the Year of the Wooden Snake or – as was recently forwarded to me – the Year to Throw Away Single Socks.

FINE OF FEATHER: A black scooter performs a take-off dance. (Photo by Ryan Morrill)

I’m guessing the year will be somewhere in between, though I couldn’t resist following up on that single sock thing, quickly learning there is a name for such lone hosieries – namely singletons, or more emotionally, orphans.