As temperatures cool, the leaves turn color, and we start preparing our Thanksgiving feast, we often reflect on all that we are grateful for. It is a long list, but perhaps it can be surmised in the words love, joy, laughter, and health. Love is a warm chocolate chip cookie, a kiss on the forehead,…
Thanksgiving is a very special time of year where we remind ourselves of things in our lives that we are grateful for. This holiday allows us to come together and celebrate life, our freedom, our family, friends, health, etc. It is during this time that we reflect on our blessings and express our gratitude. It’s…
Personal happiness may be the most studied facet of human life in the psychology field. Just a brief search in a library database of scholarly journals produces thousands of results featuring research and assessments on human happiness; not to mention the endless selection of titles in the self-help section of your local bookstore. The Declaration…
Ten years ago, I took my first trip to Sonoma, California and toured the magnificent wine country. Still a starving college student at the time, the budget was small but the passion about wine was big—the new millennium ushered in a whole new generation of wine snobs. Renting a car, friends and I drove around…
The hostess gift. Whenever I have to get a hostess gift, I think of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry and Elaine stop to get a chocolate babka for a dinner party. Someone in line before them gets the last one and they have to settle for a cinnamon babka and Elaine is not to happy…
These past few months have been a rollercoaster for me. A number of my possessions were either stolen and/or lost, and I began to think the universe had it in for me. I have been through a lot this past year and have been asked on many occasions why I’m not curled up in a…
“We’ve got ANOTHER holiday to worry about. It seems Thanksgiving Day is upon us.” -Charlie Brown in “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” Charles Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip, introduced us to Charlie Brown and the gang. He made us fall in love with the melancholy, moody kid with the bald head who decorated our…
As we begin to approach the Thanksgiving holiday, we are reminded to express gratitude and appreciation for all we have. Many of us reserve our gratitude for the “good ol’ times”- the moments when something especially good happens and everything is going well. But gratitude is not meant to be locked away for special occasions….