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This past year has been one that has challenged all of us in new and unprecedented ways. Despite our most diligent intentions, the daily stresses of life are present. As we end 2020, and prepare for 2021, how can […]

What does peace look like to you? Does it have a sound? Does it have a scent?

For me, peace looks like a baby smiling in his sleep. Peace is also the feel of his cheeks, the smell of his hair, and the sound of […]

In my twenties I loved fall. I loved the symbolism of the trees shedding their leaves as if to remind us that we too should shed the old to make way for the new. In my fascination with fall, I never really gave […]

2020 has been a dumpster fire. No truer statement has ever been uttered. In January, we held our breaths wondering if the death of an Iranian general would start World War III while a bushfire raged across […]

I’ll never forget the summer afternoons of my childhood when my mother would call my siblings and me in from playing outside with the neighbors to take a half hour nap. Our friends didn’t have to go in for a nap […]

As we look back upon a year that still has the dark cloud of COVID-19 hanging over it, it’s time to be hopeful for new beginnings and healthy habits as we head into 2021.

When faced with uncertainty and s […]

What is the practice of Gratitude anyway?  It is the practice of gratitude, to be mindful, and appreciative of everything good in your life, even the little things.

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough, an […]

Ever wonder how old sayings got started? They often grew out of a desperate time. A hundred years ago, the world faced a horrible pandemic, one that would take the lives of one-fifth of the population. A century […]

Gratitude is an emotion and a feeling that can have deep impact on our mental, physical, and spiritual state of being. The very act of saying thank you to a colleague, family member or a complete stranger can […]

Why is something so easy as giving and/or showing gratitude so difficult nowadays?  How do you feel when someone thanks you or gives you a gratuitous smile just because?    I remember the “whack” on the back o […]

I am grateful for time.

Exactly what that means has changed in the last few years. Time in the last nine months has looked like repainting my house, inside and out. It has looked like reading 75 books that have […]

“Today, I choose to live with gratitude for the love that fills my heart, the peace that rests within my spirit, and the voice of hope that says all things are possible.”

-Anonymous

I often look back ove […]

Today, as I sit at my keyboard I am fully aware of one singular thing: My breath.

Because fires rage in the Western United States and many of my friends and colleagues are writing to share that they cannot […]

As a child, I was told many times that I was a “Pollyanna.” After the 50th time I was called that name, I decided to look up it’s meaning. Evidently, a Pollyanna is someone who is “unfailingly cheerful-no matter […]

What’s on your Top Ten list of things you are grateful for?

I’ll bet if 25 moms and I were all sitting together in a room-

-make that a park

-sitting at least 8 feet apart (because 6 still feels rea […]

As the season of giving thanks approaches, we might wonder after all the uncertainty and restrictions of the Coronavirus, what on earth do we have to be grateful for?  Much as we’ve eagerly anticipated going ba […]