Susan Young's Page

Happy Thanksgiving to all the U.S. readers! I hope each of you enjoyed a festive Thanksgiving Day.  

My gives: 

I started a new job 3 months ago and work from a "satellite" office with the entire team in Boston. There are only 2 of us here working from one room with no windows. The woman I work with is lovely; she and her husband of 5 months have no family or friends here. They moved here 2 years ago. When my family decided to host Thanksgiving, we extended an…

It's been way too long since my last contact/post, but I continue my gives and think of 29 Gifts all the time.

This Thanksgiving will be two years since a dear friend and mentor introduced the book to me. I've been living it ever since.

I don't know if any of the "old crowd" is still around, I hope so! I haven't had time to poke around the site, which looks like it's been busy! 

After much mayhem, heartache, and unemployment challenges, my family is back together at…

She's home! My Stephanie is back home! It was exactly a year to the day. We went to Salt Lake City last weekend for her high school graduation. Hard to believe with all of the turmoil and heartache of the past 2 years, Stephanie graduated  a semester early with a 3.5 GPA. She did struggle with the therapeutic part of the program right until the end, but she's made a lot of progress. Me and Andrew held up pretty well at the graduation until she and a friend sang a song from…

I'm back---kind of! Thanks to all of you who have taken time to keep in touch these past two months. Just for the record, I have been giving, just not blogging. And on Thanksgiving Day, I realized it was my 1 year anniversary of 29 gifts. I tell you, this pretty much saved me. The philosophy of turning my attention to others in need or places I could be of service has made a huge and lifelong difference to me.

When 2009 ended, I cried in the restaurant and said it was the…