1. Look at pictures of Jessie, Joey & Caroline.
2. Take my dogs for a walk and watch them sniff and examine and sniff and examine and sniff and examine every blade of grass along the way.
3. Take a bath, with bubbles and dim lighting.
4. Light a candle and enjoy the scent.
5. Read The New Yorker cartoons.
6. Call or email a friend.
7. Watch my cats chase a bug.
8. Say my children's birthdays one at a time and think of all the good things about them, one at a time.
9. Walk and smile and say hello to everyone I meet along the way.
10. Clean the dust off my ceiling fan.
11. Listen to Jeff Foxworthy's CD "You might be a redneck if..."
12. Buy a new brand of Merlot and try to imagine the grape vine that it came from.
13. Listen to Norah Jones.
14. Read poetry.
15. Write poetry.
16. Fill my ice cube trays.
17. Recline.
18. Watch the "Wizard of Oz"...again.
19. Go to the Dallas Museum of Art.
20. Plan a vacation to NYC in September.

These are just some of the things I do to get my mind off the war...what do you do?