My Gratitude Toolbox: Lessons Learned from Smoke Alarms

I want to start with a smoke alarm story…even if we’ve never experienced a home fire, We all have smoke alarm stories, don’t we? … One time, I was house-sitting for friends when I heard the dreaded chirp, chirp, chirp. Now this was 5:30 Friday evening and this house was in Woodland Park, a mountain town where I knew no-one. And this house wasn’t a tiny apartment like where I live, it was a veritable lodge with remarkably high ceilings. My kingdom for a tall ladder and a 9…