I have had an unbelievably hard week, the kind that comes with chest pains and indigestion and a constant sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach.  I have spent the week helping people who have lost their jobs wrap up the last annoying details and helping people who have kept their jobs slog through the survivor guilt.  And I have done my damndest to lose my own job by speaking up for the people who don’t get to say anything about what is happening to them.

I still have a job, amazingly.  I suppose there is some kind of grace in that.

Today is the kind of day when it would be so easy to say screw this, there is no grace in anything and then to crawl under the covers with a with a stiff drink and box of tissues and cry it out.  But I just refuse to do that; it’s like letting the terrorists win.

(I do not work for terrorists.  I’m just being dramatic.  Promise.)

So here is my list for today — because the war against embitterment starts at home.  Or something like that.

1.  Cookstr — every recipe you could ever need, and then some.  Edited by the superfabulous Katie Workman, who made me laugh out loud last night with a long string of emails about the word “fart.”

2. The blogging team at ParentDish, who make me wish that our virtual office was a real office, ideally in a building with a bar in the lobby, especially late on a Friday afternoon.

3. Chris, who fills my afternoons with badly spelled text messages, which is just what I need by about four pm.

4. My husband, who says, “Quit.  Just do it,” and manages to make that a completely supportive and positive suggestion.

5. You all, for sticking with me for 1,000 posts (this post is #1,001! how crazy is that?!?).

Thank you.

Make the world a better place by finding Grace in Small Things.