Thankful Thursday: Focusing the Lens from Flawed to Fabulous

I found myself this morning staring at my gratitude journal and feeling blank. I was running the list of things for which I was ungrateful. (I will shield you from the list). Hmmmm, not the best start to the day, right? It felt like the list of things that are “broken” had gotten rather lengthy….

Thankful Thursday: Frisky Pigeons Mean Spring?

Here in the great state of O-H-I-O (cheers to those of you who chanted that) Spring is showing signs of returning. It’s quite a flirt this time of year and plays hard to get.. a lot. This in turn causes many of us, or me, to interpret every little thing like a sign of spring….

Thankful Thursday: Text Me Some Laughter

I have a love/hate relationship with technology…a lot. It makes our lives often so much easier, but at other times it is the very thing that gets in the way. I get tired of seeing my kids with their phones and iPads. I loathe hearing the incessant beeps and rings of notifications. I beg my…

Thankful Thursday: Appreciation Day!

My least favorite holiday has come and gone. I have long been an abstainer when it comes to Valentine’s Day. I have many a reason and only a few of them are what you might think. But I am going to spare you all of them and instead share with you something that, to me,…

Thankful Thursday: Another Chance to Start Fresh

Year of the Tiger, Goat, Ox and the list goes on. It might sound a little silly but then we run around telling each other we’re Libras, Capricorns and Taureans (is that the plural of Taurus? So confusing) so really… who are we to judge? Earlier in the year Lowi suggested that the new year…

Thankful Thursday: Love Outside The Box

This week we were saddened by the death of the young female aid worker, Kayla Mueller. I have read a lot about her over the last couple of weeks and while it’s always a tragedy to lose someone so young, it seems even more senseless when we hear of someone who gave so much of…