I’ve always wanted to get married. I’ve never wanted to plan a wedding. “If it were up to me,” Michael tells people, “we’d elope on a beach.” “If it were up to me,” I say, “we’d have a party in the backyard. And it’d be potluck.” But there’s a third party involved here: Dad. AKA…

Somewhere I heard about the book, “Thank and Grow Rich” by Pam Grout. I know all about the gratitude journal craze that’s out there now. I figured it was probably more of the same, but I liked the play on words so decided to get the book from the library. I immediately liked the author’s…

A blog I was reading issued a challenge for January: try to eat things you already have in your house. AKA: the pantry challenge. We all have plenty of things in our pantries and freezers we haven’t seen, let alone used, in quite some time. So the challenge says to get that stuff out and…