Author: Tara
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Open Home and Hearts
Day 29: What friend/family member are you grateful for today? This is hardly a fair question as someone is bound to be offended if I do not say I am grateful for them. It would be an easy cop out to say ALL of my family and friends, which would be true. However, I am…
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Waking Up Grateful
Day 28: What small thing that happened today are you grateful for? Well, my day has only just begun as it has been a relatively slow weekend morning start. 🙂 However, I am already grateful for the fact that I woke up on my own – meaning my husband did not wake me up as…
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_The Shadow of the Wind_ by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
_The Shadow of the Wind_ by Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1 was a book that a student recommended that I read. When she was reading it, I noticed that she was seemingly addicted to it as she was reading it whenever I walked into class or if there was extra time…
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_MaddAddam_ by Margaret Atwood
_MaddAddam_ by Margaret Atwood The last of the trilogy following_Oryx and Crake_ and _The Year of the Flood_, this one was very disappointing to me. I finished reading it a while ago and am just now trying to remember more than the fact that I was not happy with the ending of this trilogy given how…
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Perspectives
Day 25: What moment this week are you most grateful for? Well, the week is not over, but so far this week the moment I am most grateful for was during our day trip. In Oman’s airport, we had Dairy Queen where I introduced M to an Oreo Blizzard. It was a moment when we…
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_Second Honeymoon_ by James Patterson
_Second Honeymoon_ by James Patterson In light of yesterday’s adventure, I took along a ‘holiday’ reading for the plane ride. Also, it seems that lately I have been preferring to read paper books for some reason. Since I had bought this one in the last week of work for a discount, I thought it was…
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One-Day Holiday
Day 23: What tradition are you grateful for? Traditions seem to be falling by the wayside these days; however, there is something very comforting about having traditions. One of my favorite traditions is the gathering of friends (and family if they are near) for a “Sunday” meal. This is why Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday…
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_The 4-hour Workweek_ by Timothy Ferriss
_The 4-hour Workweek_ by Timothy Ferriss I mean how can the title of this book not interest you? Who doesn’t want to be able to work only four hours a week and still make a decent living? Ferriss offers some very tangible and realistic ways to free up time or to use time efficiently to…
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Music
Day 21: What song are you most grateful for? This is one of my favorite songs and whenever I hear it I end up putting it on repeat. The tune is beautiful to me and the lyrics are poetically sweet. Oftentimes I find that songs in other languages touch my soul more than those in…
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Day 20
Day 20: Who in your life are you grateful for? While it might seem easy to say my husband since I write about him quite a bit, this one is difficult to choose just one person to be grateful for. They say it takes a tribe and that we are the sum total of our…
