Book excerpt: A funny book about everyday small blessings, perfectly plausible strokes of luck, and not inheriting a loved one's parrot when they die. Who wouldn't enjoy being promised their daughter's idiot boyfriend will be out of her life before the holiday picture is taken?Life is challenging. We could all use a big win but that doesn't happen too often. It's modest blessings that keep us going. Quinn Cummings knows that sometimes you just need a run of green lights while driving home or to know the answer to Final Jeopardy when someone is actually around to hear you say it. Modest Blessings for Modern Times bestows the most mundane of good fortune and, should you feel like it, you can tear off a blessing and hand it to someone who needs it. That someone can always be you.Modest Blessings for Modern Times is a laugh-out-loud reminder to look around and appreciate the tiny joys life offers, to keep things in perspective, and to buy that bridesmaid's dress knowing you will, in fact, wear it again.