Ah, Summertime

Although summer does not officially arrive for another week and a half and the temperatures here in southern CA are below average and the June gloom is hanging around way late into the day, I am still excited for summer.  I think that I need summer more this year than ever before.  It seems that [...]

Happy Birthday New Year

I could never quite wrap my head around New Year’s Day as the day for making resolutions regarding any type of new beginnings and now I think that I understand why.  While as a society, we celebrate together on the beginning of the new calendar year, I believe that our individual New Year begins on [...]

Enjoying Each Day

With the anniversary of September 11th so fresh in my mind, I couldn’t help but reflect upon all of those people who lost their lives that day and all of those who lost loved ones that day.  It also reminded me about how we so often take for granted the lives that we have and [...]

Enjoying Today

I was trying to figure out what I wanted to write about today and couldn’t think of a thing.  The day has been pretty quiet with just watching some TV and crocheting a blanket as a part of my volunteering as a Disney Blanketeer.  We make blankets for children in crisis and this has been [...]