Find the Silver Lining

I posted my first blog, “Experiencing Joy,” on July 23, 2013.  In two weeks we will celebrate the fifth anniversary of that earth-shattering occasion. I have posted a blog every Tuesday morning for the past five years.  That’s more than 250 individual personal essays averaging five hundred words each, or more than 125,000 words total – enough to fill a four hundred page book.

If a journey of ten thousand miles begins with a single step, then writing a four hundred page book begins with a sing...