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Update: Home + Tired + Grateful

I spent all day Friday supporting my parents at the hospital. In the wee hours of Saturday morning, I got up at 2:30 am to help meet a need. Sunday morning (this time it…

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  • Gratitude, Hard Things
  • Aug, 31, 2026
  • 35 Comments

Join Me: August Gratitude Practice + Free Printables

I’m hosting a little gratitude practice for August over at Lighthouse Keepers, my Patreon community, and I’d love to have you participate.

I’ve created two free printable trackers: one with 31 (short!) daily prompts and…

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  • Gratitude, Joy
  • Jul, 23, 2026
  • 16 Comments

Fresh FIGs: Gratitude Collective Week #4 + 2026 Wrap-up

Full disclosure: I’m writing this while emerging from 24 hours spent in a fairly deep pit of despair. Friday involved a deluge of hard, non-bloggable stuff, and it took the wind out of my…

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  • FIG Collective, Gratitude
  • Mar, 04, 2026
  • 23 Comments

Fresh FIGs: Gratitude Collective Week #3

Is February zooming by for everyone else?? Just me? I know it’s a short month to begin with, but it feels like my life is currently on fast forward and I’ve lost the remote!

In…

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  • FIG Collective, Gratitude
  • Feb, 25, 2026
  • 29 Comments

Fresh FIGs: Gratitude Collective Week #2

For anyone joining for the first time—welcome! Here’s a peek at last week’s basket of fresh “FIGs”.

Before I dive into the literal dozens of FIGs we’ve collectively gathered over the past seven days, I…

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  • FIG Collective, Gratitude, Life
  • Feb, 18, 2026
  • 29 Comments

Fresh FIGs: Gratitude Collective Week #1

In the words of my friend, the Grinch, IT. IS. GO. TIME.

I think February is a wonderful month to lean into a gratitude practice. At least in my part of the world, life starts…

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  • FIG Collective, Gratitude
  • Feb, 11, 2026
  • 38 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 30 January

Well, that was a doozy of a week!

My part of the world (and honestly, most of North America, it seems) got walloped with winter. It was absolutely frigid and, to add insult to injury,…

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  • FIG Collective, Happy Things Friday, Life
  • Jan, 30, 2026
  • 49 Comments
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