Alice Eckles looks at New Year with clear resolution

Alice Eckles looks at New Year with clear resolution

A few weeks into 2026, and it’s time for a check-in. How’s it going? Are those New Year’s resolutions holding up? Middlebury artist Alice Eckles has some pretty on-point thoughts for this time of year: “Out with the old and in with the new,” she said during an email interview at the turn of the New Year. “Sometimes this happens by choice. Change is proof of life. “Artists often suffer, but I take joy in my suffering on that account because I kno…