It’s been another hard year but I sincerely hope that we all have a wonderful 2022! And may we look forward with excitement and let the past stay behind us, where it belongs!

It’s been another hard year but I sincerely hope that we all have a wonderful 2022! And may we look forward with excitement and let the past stay behind us, where it belongs!
Since Thanksgiving is tomorrow, I thought I’d share one of my favorite practices for this time of year. There are many types of journals–diaries, travel journals, food journals, etc, but there’s another kind of journal that does more than keep track of your life. There’s a journaling practice that’s been proven to reduce stress and improve happiness. It’s known as Gratitude Journaling.
I hope you all are enjoying your Memorial Day weekend, and I’ve included one of my favorite Robert Frost poems to remind us that peace isn’t always free.
Autumn is such a fleeting season. But one of the best ways to capture the sensations of Fall is through reading books that evoke the same kinds of emotions. So here’s a short book list to help you stay in the season, even if all the stores have their Christmas decorations out already.
Sharon Wray shares a recipe for Dutch Apple Cake which appears in Washington Irving’s classic short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. A cake eaten by Icacod Crane right before he was beheaded by the Headless Horseman.
NaNoWriMo 2022 has ended and it’ time for a final check-in. But regardless if you won or not, all that matters in the long run is how you feel about your stories and your writing path forward. All that matters is that, as a writer, you know you’re not alone!
I hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving! And here’s a lovely Selkirk Grace by Robert Burns to remind us of our blessings.