Weekly Gratitude

Happy weekend and can you believe there’s only one more week left in February? Time certainly does fly. This week, I was grateful for… The Olympics – the excitement, the drama, the living vicariously through the athletes, the incredible abilities and thanks to Johnny Weir, the glitter; The opportunity to do something other than wallow [...]

Somewhere Out There

“I could write a blog. I have thoughts.” (Amy Adams as Julie Powell in the movie version of Julie & Julia) Lately, it seems that more and more people are writing about writing and specifically, writing about blogs: Kristen has written about it twice in the last month, Erica recently explored the idea of a [...]

Love, a la Jane Austen

It occurred to me, after the fact of course, that my Valentine’s Day post on Friday portrayed me as a romantic trying to be a pragmatist. While this is true to a certain extent, I didn’t want my few and faithful readers to think that reality had beaten down the romantic in me. So, to [...]