Nov 29, 2025 | 30 Days of Joy
I LOVE A Christmas craft, particularly if it’s something I can do while watching The Voice or Survivor or (my current fave) The Diplomat. I’ve had fun these last couple of weeks popping out a few of what I’m calling Dancing Trees. They’re so...
Nov 27, 2025 | 30 Days of Joy
The post below first appeared on The Daily Grace on Thanksgiving Eve 2011. So much has changed in the years since I wrote it. All of the grandparents have passed on. Eliza—the cute Party Girl in blue, above, is now 33, married, and has a sweet daughter of her...
Nov 25, 2025 | 30 Days of Joy
IT TOOK ME forever to see. Tim swore it was there, in a photograph taken by our friend, Paul, when he and Stacy came to visit at the end of October. His was a shot of one of the two Autumn wreathes that hang on our front doors, October to Thanksgiving. I looked at the...
Nov 23, 2025 | 30 Days of Joy
IT’S AN UNFORTUNATE reality that for the better part of the last two years, I’ve spent a large portion of most every day sitting on my bum, working at my computer. For good reason, nearly all of it, as with the publishing of my book there has been round...
Nov 21, 2025 | 30 Days of Joy
DO YOU LOVE your holiday tunes the way I love my holiday tunes? Isn’t Christmas music just THE BEST??? If the answer is yes (and I know the answer is yes), you’re gonna wanna listen to this playlist starting now. I know, I know. It’s called Cozy...
Nov 20, 2025 | 30 Days of Joy
MY HEART’S BEEN pulling toward another 30 Days of Joy, a holiday series during which I set the intention to look for, and to acknowledge, moments big and small that center me, that fill me, that remind me life is a gift meant to be enjoyed and savored....
