Do you make New Year’s resolutions? I have in the past, but they’ve been unrealistic and somewhat discouraging after the first week. No chocolate until I get down to a certain weight? Who am I kidding?! I’ve decided to make some realistic changes instead. Write daily in a gratitude journal. Read the daily entry in […]
Gratitude Journal Winners and a Poem
Ta-da! We have the two winners of the Gratitude Journal! [May I say right now that those of you who didn’t win need to take it up with the three-year-old, as she was the Designated Chooser of the Folded-Up Pieces of Paper!] Ach. I wish I could give all of you journals to write your […]
The Practice of Gratitude
Today is a day of gifts. Right before we left for the sunny Caribbean, I heard a very simple, yet remarkable podcast with Oprah and Sarah Ban Breathnach, the author of several Simple Abundance books (for years, I’ve had the Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy, but have never read it). Sarah was […]


