It’s common to have a case of the “what ifs” when you’ve had a cancer diagnosis, especially advanced cancer. Like yesterday when I was pulling out a storage bin from a closet, I asked myself, “What if this pain in my side means the cancer has spread to my rib?”
It’s excruciating, and I’m not talking [...]
Here we sit in a coffee shop in Chinatown in DC. We have had a busy day walking around looking at all the monuments – Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, etc. and then went for a while to the Smithsonian American History Museum. It has been lots of fun, but exhausting. I’m grateful I had some time [...]
I remember as a kid getting Highlights Magazine. I always liked those pictures where you have to find the hidden objects, but sometimes they were hard to spot! Now they have Where’s Waldo to intrigue and torture our new generation.
Gratitude is like that. Sometimes you have to look really hard to find the good in [...]
Hope you all had a warm and wonderful Thanksgiving! Today we have a very special guest blogger: my 10-year-old daughter Chrissy. My budding writer did a post on our family blog to reflect on gratitude. I may be biased, but I think she has a lot of wisdom to share. Here’s what she has to say:
I usually [...]
I’ve changed my view of Thanksgiving lately. I used to think it was all about pigging out and visiting relatives. Now I’ve been focusing more on what its name intended: giving thanks.
A friend of mine started a page on Facebook, which is a daily gratitude list. I think it’s a great idea, but I need [...]
