Daily Gratitude: Day 2
Admittedly, it was harder for me to locate gratitude today. I’m in a bad mood. I woke up sore from pushing it yesterday with my class (teaching) and work load, and driving in the rain here is definitely fear inducing. …
Author: Sandy
Day 2 of Daily Gratitude: Morning Coffee
Maybe this makes me an addict, but I’m grateful for that part of my morning routine that simultaneously helps me wake and prep for the day, and puts off headaches (definitely an addict). Coming soon to a Sandying post near …
Bringing Daily Gratitude to Chronic Twenties
In advance of Turkey Day, I’ve seen many of my friends from the alternative healing community take up the torch of the Thanksgiving Challenge. The challenge is about daily gratitude — participants find one thing a day to be grateful …
Thanksgiving Challenge: Daily Gratitude
My pal Abby Thompson got started on the Thanksgiving Gratitude Challenge last week. Although I may be coming late to the party, I’ll be posting one thing I’m grateful for a day until the big turkey day. Of course, I …
Socializing and Side Effects
There’s a particular lifestyle associated with twenty-somethings. Binge drinking, nights of mischief and fashionably, attractive outfits (read: painful heels and clothes that don’t actually keep anyone warm) come to mind. Even though many people confine their overindulgences to their college …
Acceptance and Healing
So you have this disease. That sucks. You’re going to have it forever?! That really sucks. Now what do you do? Do you spend a bunch of time feeling sorry for yourself? Probably. I didn’t realize this at the time, …
Fear and Footwear
I was immediately terrified that I’m going to be in pain and deformed forever.
The Break Up Mix
Over the summer, to cope with the end of my last relationship, I put together a break up mix. I didn’t burn it to a CD or record a mix tape; it lives on my computer as an iTunes album. …
From the Bookshelf: Men are from Mars
A friend of mine recommended I read this book, and lo and behold, I found it on the coffee table that very day. I like to think that I’m open to self help books and whatnot. But I know better. …
Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Swell…
It’s getting cold too quickly. Weather.com tells me that there’s a chance of snow this weekend. Aside from the annoyance that we longer have seasons (it’s October, where the heck is fall?), a long period of cold is really bad …