A couple of weeks ago, I was tucked away in suburbia, inching through a Starbucks drive-through. As I waited impatiently for my foamy fix, suddenly an all-too-peppy barista leaned a little too far out of his sliding window and asked, “So,what is your New Year’s resolution?” Longing for the anonymity of New York Starbucks’ sprawling lines, I begrudgingly responded, “Uh… to try something new?”
