Silly Season with New Jobs and Bracing for Winter: Best of Blogs

January: a time for weight loss (or attempted weight loss), new beginnings, new jobs and a time to brace for winter's worst.

Take a look at some of our latest blogs posted on Patch in case you missed them this week:

•  writes about how :

"In January, the attention of Americans turns to weight loss. Retailers exploit this interest, displaying towers of shiny new diet books. The media pumps out stories, offers tips and guidance (the same tips as every other year) and earnestly discusses the ways to make our New Year's resolutions work. Gyms fill will newbies. Thankfully, it will all be over in a couple of weeks and those with the serious intent of changing their lives will be able to go back to work undistracted." Read the .

•  writes about :

"To ring in the New Year, here’s a fresh batch of local job opportunities for Patch readers. From Parma to Fairlawn, from downtown Cleveland to Highland Heights, these businesses have posted dozens of new jobs in the last two weeks: http://patch.com/B-3Cc"

•  writes about the end of the holiday season and : 

"Christmas is over. New Year’s is over. You can exhale. But that exhalation comes with a price: winter. Cleveland doesn’t actually experience winter until January now, and it bleeds into mid-April. People argue this with me all the time, but I don’t remember it being that way when I was a kid. I remember it beginning to snow around Thanksgiving, and ending around early March. I think this is obviously (if not anecdotal) evidence of climate change, but there are those people who insist my memory is faulty and that climate change does not exist, much to my chagrin." Read .

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