Category: Thoughts
A Grateful Family: Five Ways to Teach Children to Be Grateful
My child and I just finished writing 25 thank you notes for gifts she received at her birthday party. My child is in preschool, so her contribution consisted of signing her name. However, I was impressed by the fact that she wanted each card read to her before she signed it. Although writing thank you [...]
Expressing Gratitude: Why Being Thankful is Good For You
My trip to India has led me to reflect on many things about my life. My most recent posts have been expressions of gratitude for many things that I value and appreciate: my family, my home, clean air, and my ability to travel all over the world. Expressing gratitude for the good things in my [...]
Expressing Gratitude: I Am Thankful for Clean Air
A few years ago I woke up and went to the kitchen. When I looked outside into the backyard, I noticed something was wrong. It was filled with smoke, but nothing was on fire. I looked through other windows and saw the same thing–a lot of smoke, but no fire. So I called the “no [...]
Expressing Gratitude: I Am Thankful for My Home
I have to admit I do not live in a mansion. I live in a modest house in the United States. I also have another confession. I have not always loved my house. Please don’t get me wrong, I realize that the house has many good points. It was completely remodeled when we moved in, [...]
Expressing Gratitude: I Am Thankful For My Family
While traveling in India, I realized that there were many things for which I am thankful. One of the things that I am most thankful for is my family and our ability to lead a relatively healthy and safe life. Being away from my family for ten days was very difficult. Because of the high [...]
Expressing Gratitude: I Am Thankful I Get to Travel the World
As I mentioned during my last blog post, I am traveling the world. I traveled from my home in Tampa for a ten day trip through India that included both sightseeing and work. This is my second trip to India, and for the most part, I have been traveling with my co-workers and visiting other [...]
My House Wasn’t Hit By the Satellite. Was Yours?
I was glad to wake up this morning to find that NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, had not crashed into my house. Driving to work yesterday, I heard a report on the public radio station about how UARS would be plummeting to the earth overnight, but scientists could not quite predict where [...]
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