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My Dear Friend Valentine Campaign

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Dear Reader, Once again, The Glamour Gals Foundation is determined to generate smiles among isolated seniors in care homes. This is a great campaign. I apologize for this late posting. The deadline to send a card is this Friday, February 9th. So if you sign on quickly, you’ll be assigned a name to send a […]

Mundane Miracles

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Dear Reader,  “What are you aware of?” was a mantra question a therapist friend used to ask.  We give our devices so much of our attention, much of our world goes by unnoticed. Anna Kode invites us to expand our powers of observation with a pen and a notebook. Who knows? What might seem mundane […]

National Handwriting Day

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Dear Reader…Just days after a week of letter writing, now we spotlight “National Handwriting Day.” January 23rd is the day set aside annually to celebrate handwriting. Isn’t it great that both letter writing and handwriting are features of early January along with new beginnings and resolutions? Maybe there’s a hidden nudge for us to handwrite […]

Universal Letter Writing Week

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Dear Reader,  Universal Letter Writing Week falls every year on the second full week in January. Now we can bring our passion for letter writing to the foreground from January 14 through the 20th.  The following article is a perfect inspiration to set the mood for our letter writing week together…. The Nicest New Year’s […]

The Year of Delight

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When the World Feels Dark, Seek Out Delight By Catherine Price Here’s an idea for the new year: Let’s make 2024 the year of delight. Does that sound ridiculous, given the state of the world right now? Hear me out. The basic premise of a delight practice (which I learned about in the essay collection […]

More on Expressing Gratitude

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Dear Reader, I hope everyone had a pleasant, nourishing Thanksgiving. My day was filled with grateful communications from friends. The main feature on my holiday table was a “vegan meatloaf,” made with plant based Beyond Meat. It was delicious, very filling, but not heavy. I could not eat dessert. After dinner, I logged onto the […]

Expressing Gratitude

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Happy Thanksgiving, dear Reader.  Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. People gathering to share food with nurturing and gratitude as the central themes, what’s not to love about that? I appreciate that Thanksgiving has a low commercial aspect. And that is essentially why the culture undervalues this holiday. Shoot! The shops are already playing “Jingle Bells,” […]

Write it down

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Happy Halloween Dear Reader. To honor this holiday, let’s take a walk in the graveyard. Memento mori. Last week, I attended Richard Friswell’s fascinating library lecture, “Graven Images, Colonial New England Gravestones as Art and History.” As he explained, the imagery on the gravestones directly correlated to the early settlers’ relationship with Death. Samuel and Lydia […]