Happy New Year! I hope your 2024 started off with fireworks. I had the pleasure, since I am my own boss, of taking off the last two weeks of the year. I suspect many people did the same as me, just unofficially. I did check my email dutifully but mostly enjoyed (or tormented) family. Note …
End of year reflections
Do you tend to get reflective in the last week of the year? I do. I look at what I’ve done (or not done) and what I hope to do in 2024. I used to set resolutions, but I don’t anymore. Resolutions tend to be too extreme and often not achievable. We can talk about …
Last gratitude challenge for 2023
Thank you all for participating in the challenges throughout the year. I had established a gratitude channel on Slack at my prior company during the pandemic. I swear it helped me and other muddle through that tumultuous time. When I retired, I was most concerned about that channel – would it continue. I have no …
Fear not!
Last week my choir director called me and asked me to sing a verse of ‘Lord I want to be a Christian’ following the sermon for two of the Christmas Eve services. I thought she had called the wrong Mary. I said yes, because 1) that’s who I am and 2) how could anyone say …