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Nine Tips for Living Your Life with Gratitude

We often underestimate the healing power of being grateful for what you have, and all the blessings in your life that you might take for granted. Living your life with gratitude allows you to recognize and appreciate the amazing things in your life each day.  These basic habits will make it easy to live your […]

Five things my mother taught me that everyone needs to learn

I’m a native Coloradan, born in the valley and lived half my childhood surrounded by mountains.  When I was a fifth grader my parents decided to move to the Great Plains where they both had spent most of their lives.  It was a culture shock.  In the valley, evening came quickly and decisively.  When the […]

Rocky the Cat

On Christmas Eve an apartment dweller called the manager and said, I keep hearing a cat meowing in one of the garages here, can you find out what’s going on?   So the manager trekked out, found the garage and rescued a small kitten.  He asked around, no one seemed to know anything about it.  Knowing […]

Lunch Conversation – traveling geckos

Image: Geico Insurance I’d like to see the Gecko get down off the luggage carousel. Bytes said, he jumps. No, he doesn’t, said Wheels.  I said, they just show him walking off pulling his suitcase behind him. Imagine Bytes jumping off a loading dock shoulder high with a suitcase half his height.   We laughed at […]

Liebster Award and getting personal . . . .

Happy as a bluebird with a full feeder on a snowy day. . . . Thank you,  Linda at  The Tumbleweed Contessa,  for the Liebster Award nomination.   Your questions caught my attention and made this a fun thing to do!  The Liebster Award is given by bloggers for bloggers to foster community and gives the […]

Recipe for happiness – thoughts on a root beer float

Wheels and I sat down one recent hot, steamy weekend afternoon for a rare root beer float. As I spooned the vanilla ice cream out of the fizzy beverage, I thought about the origins of a root beer float. Who was the first person to drop a scoop or two of vanilla ice cream in […]