Category: Gratitude
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Dear old world . . . you are very lovely
“’Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.’” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables A beautiful morning along the North Shore of Lake Superior! Ciao! ~ Kat
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Year-End Statistics, Award Trivia, and More ~ This is What Happens When a Cold Bug Plants a Blogger at the Computer for the Day
With disappointment, I look outside at the fresh layer of snow and sunny skies, knowing that cross-country skiing conditions would be lovely today . . . as I sit with stuffy head and achy body, struggling to open the darn childproof packaging of the Dayquil softgels, telling myself the holiday visit to New York City was…
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It’s All About the Little Things
Which parent hasn’t searched the world over and then paid through the nose for the elusive toy that darling Jimmy whispered into Santa’s ear was the “one” special present he wanted this year? (I confess, for me, it was a hard-to-get Lego kit that I ended up ordering online and paying almost as much in…
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You Flatter Me, Blogger Friends!
Recently, I read a blog post by Peter Bregman, one of my favorite business-related bloggers in the Harvard Business Review Blog Network. He posted a thoughtful commentary titled: “Do You Really Need to Say Thank You?” His post was an excellent reminder of the virtue and value of those two little words — “thank you.” No matter…
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In Memory of Bryce Courtenay and The Power of One: It’s Never Too Late to Start Writing
“Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through…
Travel. Garden. Eat. 