In many ways, 2025 already feels like a dumpster fire. Not like the first few sparks of a blaze that’s about to ignite, but a raging fire fast engulfing anything and everything in its path. Maybe a few well-intentioned resolutions will help? According to a Pew Research Center survey , three in 10 Americans attempted at least one new year‘s resolution last year.
I wasn’t one of them. Resolutions make me sad. Less calories.
Less pounds. More gym memberships. Do all resolutions have to make me feel like I should just crawl back into bed? With better resolutions in mind, I found a blurry glimmer of hope in — of all things — actress Valerie Bertinelli and her Sunday apple fritters.
I’m not kidding. Last fall, Bertinelli made the decision to eat more apple fritters. The Daytime Emmy- and Golden Globe award-winning actress and author wasn’t researching a new role or a recipe for a cookbook.
She was on a mission to bring more joy to her Sunday mornings. “I wrote my whole last cookbook [ Indulge: Delicious and Decadent Dishes to Enjoy and Share] about changing my mind about food and food not being the enemy,” she says. “I’ve always loved apple fritters.
One day, I got curious to see if the local doughnut shop I usually drive by has them. And it was the apple fritter from my childhood.” Every Sunday she visits her favorite doughnut shop to buy an apple fritter.
She brings the doughnut home and eats it while she works on this paper’s Sunday crossword puzzle. �.
