Ferris Wheels, Daffodils and Hot Fudge Sundaes: A Journal of Gratitude

by Laura Jensen Walker

What are you thankful for? Friends who listen The off switch on the telephone ringer Summer vacations When I laugh so hard I start snorting Thanksgiving leftovers God¹s perfect timing Start making a list of what you're thankful for in this beautiful journal and discover the life-changing power of gratitude. As you write, you¹ll be inspired and delighted by gratitude entries from Laura Jensen Walker. Her list, which she began writing during her fight with breast cancer, contains "serious things and silly things, childlike things and grown-up things, universal things and pertinent-only-to-me things." No doubt your list will contain a little of everything, too, as each day brings new reasons to be thankful. Writing gratitude entries will improve your perspective on life, and reading them will provide a boost of joy when you need it the most. Your gratitude journal will also serve as a lasting reminder of God's faithfulness in every area of your life. Soon you might add "my favorite pen," "the cozy spot by the window," and "this journal" to your list of appreciated things.

112 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Award-winning author Laura Jensen Walker has written several books, including the Lefty nominated historical fiction, DEATH OF A FLYING NIGHTINGALE. Dubbed "riveting and affecting" by NYT bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal, this book spotlights a group of real-life overlooked women heroes--the Flying Nightingales--from WWII. An Air Force veteran formerly stationed in the UK, Laura had the great honor of interviewing the last living Flying Nightingale, before she passed.

Bibliophile Laura fell in love with mysteries after reading Trixie Belden in the fourth grade, Her cozy mystery debut, MURDER MOST SWEET (2020) was nominated for an Agatha Award, and her next cozy, THE ALPHABET SLEUTHS, releases in Feb. 2026. Publishers Weekly says about the book: "Walker's feisty, funny, and fully realized seniors easily sit beside the casts of THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB and THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB in the coy pantheon. Readers will be charmed."

THE POSTMISTRESS OF PUDDLINGTON, Laura's second historical novel, features women on the home front in WWII England and releases in August 2026. She is currently at work on a women's fiction novel (aka book club fiction.)

Laura flew a typewriter across Europe in Uncle Sam's Air Force in her twenties, and lived in England for three years where she became a lifelong, tea-loving Anglophile. Shenow lives in Northern California with her Renaissance-man husband and their two rescue pups.