Today, I am grateful for these gifts in my life:

• weekend trip to N.C.
• Keynote speaker
• standing ovations
• Rotarians
• Beauty Shop with Queen Latifah
• getting to try out the sleep number bed
• fellow Wisconsinites
• music to quicken my run
• dinner with Athletic Girls Club, new friends
• learning to make cake with fruit puree and soy yogurt instead of oil and eggs
• dreams of going back to school
• books, bookstores
• tax deductions