#ProjectZen #Day8 #GratitudeProject  Day 8 of my gratitude project has me walking the halls of my school, where I attended Kindergarten through High School. I’m also frustrated that so many years later, names escape me, despite some of these people having a huge impact on me, and shaping my young mind. I feel compelled…
#ProjectZen #Day7 #GratitudeProject  I woke up this morning on Day 7 of my gratitude project, and before I even got out of bed, my mind was turning about just what to write about today. I was coming up with nothing. So I got up, hit the bathroom to attend to private business, wash my…
February 6, 2017 My husband and I have been married 26 years, and I am 50 years old. We are childless, and that was never our choice. We are often asked why we don’t have children. I suppose folks mean well by asking personal questions and expecting an answer. It always leaves me wondering what…
#ProjectZen #Day6 #GratitudeProject Today I am grateful for Sam, Dean, and Flower. When I look at them…..when I cuddle with them….they bring me great joy, great peace…..they make me happy. I love them very much. You can read more about how they became part of our family here: So, we rescued some kittens. Â
#ProjectZen #Day5 #GratitudeProject Perhaps I am becoming a grouchy fuddy-duddy (or maybe I have always been one). What passes as popular television viewing at the moment, turns my brain to absolute mush. I just cannot embrace scripted and shallow “reality TV” and find it disheartening that our lowest common denominators as a society are reflected…
The first time I ever flew on an airplane, I was 6 years old. I flew British Airways from NYC to London and Lufthansa from London to Stuttgart. For many years my mother went to Germany for about 6 weeks, every year, to see Oma and Opa, and she always took one of us kids…
#ProjectZen #Day4 #GratitudeProject Day 4 of my gratitude project is my gratitude to farmers. This will not be a conversation about conventional versus organic farming, Monsanto versus non-GMO, corporate farming versus small family farms, large scale livestock farms and slaughter house practices, nor a plug for a vegan lifestyle (which for the record, I admire…
When I was a kid, our parents used to vacation in Upper Michigan every August. We would go camping, fishing, hunt for agates on the beach (Lake Superior) and visit places like Copper Harbor (and the copper mines), Tahquamenon Falls, Whitefish Bay (the Edmund Fitzgerald sank roughly 17 miles from here), the locks at Sault…
#ProjectZen #Day3 #GratitudeProject No gratitude project would be true and complete without this man. The love of my life. My husband. My best friend. We love. We fuss and squabble. We learn. We forgive. We’re in this for the long haul, good and bad, come what may. Every single thing he does, he does for…
#ProjectZen #Day2 #GratitudeProject My mother instilled a deep love of reading in me very early in life. She was an avid reader of romance novels and all kinds of magazines. I never did get into romances (although I did read quite a few “light” Harlequin romance novels as a teenager). Early on I remember Dr.…