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....
Jan 6, 2023 | 30 Days of Joy
(Thanks to my friend, the amazing photographer Julie Williams Dixon, for this photo of me taken at our Wise Women— aka high school friends—gathering in April. “Nurturing friendships” deserves a place at the top of this list every year.) HOW GRATIFYING it...
Jan 4, 2023 | 30 Days of Joy
IN 1999 I BEGAN a practice of spending the month of January working through Laura Tremaine’s 10 Questions for the End of the Year. At the time I bought a new Leuchtturm1917 Journal just for that purpose, and just as I’d hope, it gives me joy and...
Dec 30, 2022 | 30 Days of Joy
WE HAD THE GRAND FORTUNE to be at home this Christmas, in particular since that meant Tim’s sister, Colette, and her husband, Gary, came to be with us. I adore them so this is always a joy. This time it was even more special since we’d traveled with them...
Dec 19, 2022 | 30 Days of Joy
It’s something we’ve said jokingly for so many Christmases, I’d come to hardly notice it. But this year, something shifted. Along about the seventh or eighth “it’s a Christmas miracle!” I actually started to count, numbering the...
