CT Christmas CD salutes hometown hero

By: Bill Doak 12/03/2007
A musical Christmastime tribute to Connecticut’s beauty has evolved into a tribute to members of the military, their families and East Hartford’s Sergeant Richard L. Ford who was killed in action while fighting in Iraq February 20.
And [...]

Suzanne,
I’m writing to tell you about a book that Doubleday is publishing: MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE by Bill Strickland.
Last November, I flew to Pittsburgh to meet Bill Strickland. All I knew was that he had built a center in the middle of the ghetto, six blocks from where he grew up, and “was saving [...]

by David J. Pollay, MAPP, founder and president of TheMomentumProject.com.
Robert Emmons, psychology professor at the University of California, Davis, demonstrated in his research that grateful people are happier. In his new book, Thanks! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier, Emmons wrote, “Our groundbreaking research has shown that grateful people experience higher [...]

Hi Suzanne…I’m blogging with gratitude over at the The Rebel Belle Blog thanks to you!!
And, for my favorite gratitude story….
The Manifestations of a Heart’s Desire
Note from Suzanne: Tuck and I have become friends, and though we’ve not met in person, much less even talked on the phone yet, she is someone who is a source [...]

Today I am grateful that I can recognize opportunities to make a difference somewhere…and also for the courage to act on them. There was a day I would have let this one slip by:
So today I’m subbing in a special ed reading class. Most of the students I know from subbing in other classes and [...]

My children, even when they drive me up a wall.
My home, even when it needs cleaned.
My laptop, even now that the D key is broken.
My internet connection, even when it clogs up and wants to be slow.
My car, even when it makes that strange, scary noise that I’m sure will cost me money sometime soon.
Tolerance [...]

In my travels around the web today, I found a funny, uplifting, laugh-out-loud video on YouTube called “The Gratitude Dance.”
Click here and do the dance with me! I dare you!
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(Submitted anonymously.)
I’m grateful you are sharing your experiences with the world through Learning Curve. One night over the summer, I was surfing around the web and found your site. I signed up for your newsletter and after reading the first email of the series you send, I knew I had found help. I felt like [...]

(Submitted anonymously.)
I originally wrote this to tell everyone how proud of my son I was. But there is a deeper story to it. My son was born with Congenital Heart Disease. At 3 days of age, he had his first heart operation, with 2 more to follow. For his first year on Earth, we seemed [...]

As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. this week, my mind is, not surprisingly, on gratitude. I’ve been thinking of ways to promote the concept of gratitude and all the positive benefits of cultivating an attitude of gratitude in our lives, and have come up with a great way to do exactly [...]