From the category archives:

Gratitude

Requisite thankfulness

November 26, 2009

Thanksgiving has been my favorite holiday for years and years. There’s just something about the simplicity of cooking and eating and spending time with people you love. It feels cozy and domestic and festive, and what’s not to like about that? And then there’s the whole gratitude component. Which is pretty great in spirit and [...]

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When you realize you’re already “there”

October 8, 2009

Boy there are a lot of experiences I’d like to have realize I am already having and start appreciating. I can get pretty absorbed in the future. Erm, okay, obsessed. Example? I spent most mornings this summer walking my dog down at the lake by our house.  Some days as we walked out onto the dock [...]

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In which I’m sick and also annoyingly perky

September 30, 2009

I’m sick. I don’t know if it’s a cold or the flu or maybe something similar that causes me to sit down in the shower to avoid blacking out from fever. The timing is kind of crappy. I got sick the night before I flew to Telluride. For work. For the production thing I do sometimes [...]

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Exhaustion: who knew there are perks?

July 31, 2009

I kind of mentioned on Wednesday that sleep is my achilles heel.  Well, actually, my obsession with getting enough of it.  See, I can be kind of a slave to sleep.  Also a bit of a sleep whore/pimp.  Yes, it’s that bad. Sleep pimp, you ask.  Mmmhmmm.  Don’t make me lecture you.  I will espouse [...]

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Being grateful right here

July 29, 2009

We’re experiencing a bit of a heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, and I spent last night tossing and turning in my blazing hot bedroom.  I tried to exhaust myself by doing a mental rundown of the little things I noticed during the day that made me feel grateful.  This tactic was meant to distract [...]

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