I've got attitude alright and it is one of the utmost gratitude. I am grateful for a thousand things large and small this day - as I am every day. In addition I will be grateful today for a fifth Thanksgiving in a row with no casualties from my cooking. On this Thanksgiving I hope [...]
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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Vivien Leigh's iconic line as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire has stayed with me over the years. In that movie she said, "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." I can't say that I identified with that saying though until I moved to my house on the cul-de-sac in West Fargo [...]
There is no rest for the weary or wicked or the wearily wicked or the wickedly weary…
Well, it has been busy a couple of days in my world. On Friday, we celebrated our family Christmas since my son Noah is only able to be here the week before Christmas. That was a day full of preparations, cooking, eating, opening presents, laughing, remembering and general fun. In addition to all the gifts [...]
Being thankful…
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy Happy Thanksgiving one and al!! Day one hundred and forty-four of the new forty - obla di obla da CC
Are you humbly grateful of grumbly hateful?
Cory overlooking the beach from the beach house at sunset - March 2009 Are you humbly grateful of grumbly hateful? The other day I was reading Prairie Woman’s blog (www.areavoices.com/prairiewomn/) and she used a Bonnie Tyler song from the eighties – “Holding Out for a Hero" – to emphasize the struggles of others in society. [...]
THE NEW FORTY 