Date: December 4, 2021 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor, This letter is a thank you note – to Rocky Mountain Outlook for being a community newspaper and for offering me the gift of column space [...]
In October 2019, I was heading off to a writing retreat in England. Before leaving, I met with two kind-hearted friends, asking if they would help me plan an event in celebration of National [...]
An Ecology of Gratitude: Writing your way to what matters, my debut book is on track to be launched early in November. Structured as a 30-day series of anecdotes and writing prompts, I use my [...]
“It felt like a sucker-punch,” my friend confided. She was recounting the story from her third person perspective between two people, who were acquaintances. Person X asked, [...]
Last week, the word “Palaver” arrived in my email feed as my “Word of the Day”. I clicked the link to the Merriam-Webster source, and the back-room word smart [...]
Has it ever happened to you? You were having a conversation with another person who just posed a question. You then took a deep breath, paused and replied, “Well, I hope so.” To which [...]
In his book, “Thanks!” the world’s pre-eminent authority in the science of gratitude research, Robert Emmons writes: “Recall that two of the primary obstacles to being [...]
Sometimes, we all need to stop, smell the flowers and hit pause. With our limitations on social gatherings, I am at risk of getting too introspective and deep into the weeds with my Grassroots [...]
A year ago, I offered a “Gratitude Goes Live” online series via Zoom. The goal was to connect people to each other and find reasons to be grateful, even when COVID was separating us [...]
I grew up in a family where admitting that I was feeling bored or sad, was a sure way to be handed a rake or a broom or a cleaning cloth. Rather than admit to my mother that I was feeling lost or [...]
