Giving thanks
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Thanksday #91
(tap, tap, tap) Check one, two…check one, two, three… Is this thing on? (ahem) Hi, my name is Monica and it’s been FOUR MONTHS since my last Thanksday. (My penance will be abstaining from the Cheez-It.) I know, four months. It’s pretty ridiculous. It’s not that I haven’t been thankful — because believe you me, Continue reading
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That Time I Was Grateful for Fear
I’m sharing about fear over here today — at my friend Kayse’s. I’m sharing about fear. About how I didn’t want to do it. About how she called on a normal afternoon and we had a normal conversation, and then suddenly the winds changed and blew in from the east and the words she spoke Continue reading
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Thanksday #90
Wow, this is my 90th Thanksday. Technically I should have well over 150 by now, since my first one was back in October 2010. But that’s why they call it “grace,” my friends. You just take a little and throw it at your feet for those times you were moving for the fourth time, or Continue reading
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Thanksday #89
Dear August, I have big plans for you. I have dreams of hot, sunny weather without rain where I can swim with the kids and not have Paxton’s lips turn blue. I have dreams of getting my tan back that I had in June. (Pausing in remembrance.) I have dreams of not wanting to pull out my Continue reading
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Thanksday #88
I’m not exactly proud to admit this, but I’m going to anyway: I’m 100%, completely and emphatically obsessed with playing on this solitaire app. It’s like I turned 82 instead of 40 this year. And yet I can’t stop playing, because I’m stuck at this score. 745. I CANNOT BREAK IT. And yet, I’m determined Continue reading
