New post on the blog: In my last post, I listed my short, simple list of new year’s resolutions/intentions: 2018 resolutions: love my family better be a better friend learn french teach adults instead of children submit my chapbook for publication over and over play competitive tennis #1, Love my family better, is based on the idea shared by the Vietnamese Zen master and Noble Peace Prize nominee, Thich Nhat Hanh. In one of his teachings, he recommends we ask those closest to us, “How can I love you better?” I’ll admit, the first time I heard this I thought, “Oh Hell no! I am not asking that question!” Not only because I didn’t really want to hear the answer – -thinking it would just be a list of things I was doing “wrong,” but because my husband at the time would have looked at me like I had lost my mind if I had asked him. He wasn’t one for introspection. Or sharing. Since then I have grown more comfortable with the question and have, from time to time, asked both my children and my new (much more open and understanding) sweetie, “How can I love you better?” Sure, sometimes the answers are painful. My children have told me I don’t keep my word when I say we are going to do something fun. Or that I yell too much. Ouch. #linkinbio🔥 #readmoreontheblog #readingislove #commentingislove #sharingislove #supportalocalblogger #isanyoneoutthere