Basic Truths of the Entrepreneurial Life. (Viewpoint)

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The new year brings with it, as always, a struggle to make it through snow-plowing season -- just in time to be greeted by the craziness that is early spring.

It's become a bit of a post-holiday tradition to use this space in our January issue to start the new year with a few little laughs and chuckles, just to remind us that -- yes -- life is still a bowl of cherries, as Erma Bombeck once said. Here are some gems we've received via e-mail over the past 12 months. They're our little New Year's gift to you.

Great truths of life, from a small-business perspective

* We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse.

* Bills travel through the …