Gratitude with a side of turkey
Last year in this space, I talked about how Thanksgiving was going to be so different — our first holiday as a family since my brother Jim passed away. I thought then — hopefully, perhaps …
Category: food
New Normal Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays — all the great food of Christmas without all the hassle of buying gifts and wrapping presents, AND there’s football on TV. Does life get any …
Fat Tuesday
It’s Paczki Day (pronounced “poonch-key”, these are in the donut family and made for Fat Tuesday specifically)! One of my most favorite days of the year, even more so in the past few years since my …
Accountability Sunday #3
This is Accountability Sunday where I look at the past week and how much work I did towards my goals and then set some goals for the coming week. Interested in joining me? You, too, …
Is there a trick to eating? 4 easy lessons I’ve learned.
For the month of January, I’ve committed to posting every day, having accepted the 30-day challenge. This is day 17 of 30. Some of the things that I’ve learned over the past year or …
Pizza and a smile
For the month of January, I’ve committed to posting every day, having accepted the 30-day challenge. This is day 7 of 30. Just a short vignette for today — something I forgot to put in …
Rights and Responsibilities
There are things in this life that we all deserve, and should, without apology or guilt, allow ourselves: I have the right to ask only myself for permission. Everyone else, I’ll just ask for forgiveness. I …
Halfway home
Okay, so my confession: the Whole Life Challenge is only a little over halfway done, but personally I’m about all the way done with it. And I have only one thing to blame this on: …
My little black book
The alarm on my phone goes off: I guess it’s time to get up. Belle’s sitting in her cage, staring daggers at me: I guess I should feed the dogs. The doorbell rings: Hide! It’s …
Starting again. Again.
Seems like this is where I always up: apologizing for not keeping up with this blog. Acknowledging that I fell off the writing wagon. Yea, well… this probably won’t be the last time, I s’pose, …