It’s kinda difficult not to get slightly elated about the first real snow of the season. Sure, this means you have to scrape your car before leaving for work (unless your a hermit, home-worker like me) and it is no longer wise to go without boots. Still, its just so beautiful – the way that [...]
Monthly Archive for November, 2008
Alice Walker is a writer whose books speak to a part of me that I didn’t know existed until I start reading. She’s wise wise wise and her imagination is goddessly. I was really thankful to find her open letter to Barack Obama after the election, because I was salivating for her words. Here’s an [...]
Busy Body
Posted in entrepreneurship, gratitude lists, hard work, mom, travel, Wisconsin, words on Nov 18th, 2008
I’ve been so busy lately that my head spins when I lay down at night, trying to sleep. This is not a bad thing, per se, but just a new thing. It’s feast or famine for me and my business productivity – something to work on for the future. I am grateful for the feasts [...]
Today’s List of Things to Be Grateful For
Posted in gratitude lists on Nov 17th, 2008
naps sleeping late staying up late remembering the Winter Parking regulations, just in time productive Sundays a clean tub friends going through the same thing friends who are much smarter than I fleece pants cleaning out my inbox still laughing about the worst movie ever rented a day after we tried to watch it overhearing [...]
How to Spice up a DPI Conference
Posted in 9-5 on Nov 13th, 2008
I am grateful for how much more enjoyable work conferences become when you carpool with a friend and stop at the outlet malls on the way home.
Hunting in the North Woods
Posted in 9-5, daily, Education, nature, travel, winter, Wisconsin on Nov 10th, 2008
I spent the day driving around northern Wisconsin, visiting school districts for whom I’ll be writing grants this year. On a drive from Superior to Mellen, I saw three bald eagles. These enormous creatures just perch in the tree branches next to the highway, casually watching me drive by, oblivious to the involuntary patriotic fervor [...]

An expression of gratitude for all that is good in my life.