Showing Gratitude should be an everyday event but the purpose for creating this page is to give readers a chance to share what they are grateful for at least once a week on GRATITUESDAY! Monday, May 9, 2011. One of my favorite gratitude graphics. Monday, May 2, 2011. Monday, April 25, 2011. Besides Immediate Family and Friends. Tuesday, April 19, 2011.

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CLHOF Receives IACA Support Grant. New Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Website Launch.

Journal Writing and the Healing Process. My journal was my lifeline during the most difficult years of my life. On April 2, 1992 I got the call every mother dreads. My nineteen-year-old daughter Maya had fallen from a horse and was in a coma at the local hospital. Could I come right away? My internal clock stopped. I became an eddy in a fast moving river of events, swirling in memories.

Can Cancer be Funny? October 8, 2012. Interviewed today by Terry Gross. Proves you can laugh and cry instantaneously. In a now famous stand-up routine she delivered at an LA theater Largo. In early August just days after her breast cancer diagnosis. Notaro broke her cancer news in the opening lines of her monologue.

And at Barnes and Noble. This book is a remarkably eloquent and harrowing account of a journey that would tax any parent. Author of the Wall Street Journal. To remove or choose t.