YOU DESERVE
A GOLD STAR

Welcome to Gold Star Friday! It's time to announce our Star of the Week! Future Stars of the Week will be chosen from reader nominations!  But since we are at the beginning of this project, I will be the one nominating our Friday Star of the Week until the time when nominations from readers start to roll in. Please send me your nominations, and please see the end of this post for more details on how to do that!  All recipients of the Star of the Week award who live in the US

Hello Gold Star Squad, and welcome to Tune Up Tuesday! Do you remember New Year's Day? We aren't even a full month into 2021, but to me January 1st feels like a lifetime ago. Did you have grand hopes and dreams for this year? Were you eager to put 2020 behind you and move on to bigger and better things? Did you create a list of goals that you want to accomplish this year? Well, I sure did! And, honestly, at this point, I am feeling a little stuck. I know that I have said

Hello Gold Star Revolution Squad members, and welcome to Gold Star Friday! It's time to announce our Star of the Week! Future Stars of the Week will be chosen from reader nominations!  But since we are at the beginning of this project, I will be the one nominating our Friday Star of the Week until the time when nominations from readers start to roll in. Please send me your nominations, and please see the end of this post for more details on how to do that!  All recipients of

Hello Gold Star Squad, and welcome to Tune Up Tuesday! In recent days, I have been thinking a lot about the value of keeping an open mind. So many people in this country have turned a cold shoulder toward people who don't think exactly the same way that they do. I think that this is unfortunate. There is so much to learn from the opinions of other people, especially those that we don't agree with. We can learn a lot about ourselves by inviting in different viewpoints and se

Hello Gold Star Squad! Normally, I would be writing about our Friday Star of the Week, but I am changing it up a bit here today. It has been more than 3 weeks since my last blog post. I had such grand plans for what I would do during the time that I was away, which included writing a whole bunch of new posts for the blog. But I didn't write a single word for almost 3 weeks. Not a one. When I stepped away from this site in December, I thought I would be stepping away to hav