By Lori Perkins I have been making New Year’s Resolutions for decades, and they are more or less the same – lose weight, exercise more, save more money, make more money, and a list of things I want to do. This doesn’t work. Four years ago I survived a stage 3 cancer battle, and coming out of recovery I realized that what I wanted to do going forward was find more joy, and specially, FIND MY JOY. So I started making New Year’s Propositions – proposals to make my life more joyf

By Lori Perkins I’ve been working in publishing for four decades, so of course, I’m a book lover. But the last thing I want as a present is another book. Or bookmark. Or a mug about a book or my book loving passion.  At this ripe old age, I also have no wall space left for posters about books. So what do you get someone like me? I’ve been keeping a journal for over 40 years (yes, since I was a kid), so a lovely 5 x 8 book --lined our unlined (I love the ones from the Metropol