gratitude

  • Gold

    “Do you want me to clear your drive?” He motioned and yelled over the sound of his snow-blower. He was pointing across the road to my driveway, where I just had a shovel and a bit of a hill up to the house. Well, it is polite to accept an…

  • Walvis

    I was looking through some books gathering dust on my bookshelf. A book about the history of whaling in the Netherlands came to be in my possession while I lived there. It was March, 2001. A client of the veterinarian clinic came to learn that I was staying in the…

  • December Days

    I have to remind myself that I have been lucky the past 4 years to be able to take two weeks off over Christmas. This year looks a little different, and even though I don’t have a real Christmas break, I have lots to be thankful for. I was able…

  • Take a Bite

    My sister sent a text to my mom, older sister and I today. She found this story “to show dad. It reminded me of taking bites out of his sandwiches when I’d make them, the year the girls were in Europe.” She went on to explain that when I was…