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Can I hear a “squee!”? Elizabeth Gilbert’s new book comes out next week. Ok, maybe you didn’t love “Eat, Pray Love” for one of several valid reasons, but I’m a fan. As someone who’s working on a memoir, I especially admire how easy Gilbert made it look–the great effort it takes to be effortlessly engaging, alive, smart, fun,…

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill “Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of…

Merry Christmas to our readers who are celebrating this morning.  For a little more holiday inspiration, a quote from famous turn-of-the-century Baptist minister, George Matthew Adams.  He said, “Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.” Need more morning inspiration?  Read our entire…

We’re so sorry to read that Teresa Heinz Kerry is going to undergo radiation treatment next month for breast cancer, which she discovered in September during her annual mammogram.  There’s not much to say except that we extend to her — and to all women going through a cancer journey — our most fervent prayers…

“Winter is the time of love and of taking the light within.” –Terry Lynn Taylor Click here for more beautiful quotes about light, and share: are you feeling the light within this morning? Need more morning inspiration?  Read our entire Fresh Morning collection!

It’s amazing how fast my hands seem to go from their usual relative suppleness to a nightmare of dry, cracking, and bright red irritation.  I can time this change almost to the minute to when the temperature first slips below freezing – or the first day that can legitimately be described as “blustery.” Dry, cold…

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.  – Norman Vincent Peale “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!”  -Hamilton Wright Mabie “Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.” –…

If where you work is anything like where I work, you’re surrounded by sugary holiday goodness right now. Or sugary badness, depending. I try to keep to my almonds and water and dark chocolate routine, but sometimes you just gots to have that homemade chocolate ganache thumbprint cookie (thanks, Sherry, yum!). And then what? Especially then-what if you’ve…

Winter's here, and so are runny noses. Are good old fashioned tissues enough, or is a product like Sniffle Buddies the answer?

Just in case you’re like me and just not in the mood for Monday, much less Monday morning, a little cynical fun to start your day: “I have a “carpe diem” mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day.  They make me want to…
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