For the record, I received perfect weather for my birthday weekend. One day was dark, stormy and delicious, just the way I love it. The next day was absolutely spring perfect with high blue skies, low humidity and the freedom to be outside all day long, also just the way I love it. I know …
About once a month or so, Hunky and I discuss the possibility of starting an informal spiritual gathering. We circle around it and poke it with sticks, knowing it's a dangerous idea. We start saying "when" instead of "if" and then flee right back to "if" because ain't nobody got time fo' when. We dream …
It occurred to me this week that I misrepresent myself in the reading department. I tell people, because I thought it was true, that I get bored with police procedural series because the y are too formulaic and predictable. There are only so many ways to beat up a bad guy, you know? But I …
It's May. May means many things to me. For the last three years it's been a season of graduations, high school graduations followed by a college graduation including two more college graduations this year. It's a season of death, with my 23rd cancerversary on the 9th, and also, thankfully, a season of life, with my …
All my life I wanted to be a professional reader, just be paid to sit and read books. For the last nearly two years, I've worked at the public library, where most days there is absolutely no time for reading, but because my favorite part of the job is reader advisory, it kind of feels …
Easter isn't really my thing. As a child, I loved it, and my parents went all out with the baskets, the candy and the hiding eggs. But as I grew older, I stopped caring as much. When my children were little, we gave Easter baskets but didn't get into 'the bunny' -creepy AF, if you …
I shared earlier this year about joining Gretchen Rubin's Happiness Project experience for 2019. I haven't gone after it as hard this month because I haven't entirely embraced the theme. It's 'friends' if you must know, and I find myself already pretty happy in that category. I'm a less-is-more being where relationships are concerned because...introvert, …
I brought a book home from work yesterday, The Happiness Curve: why life gets better after fifty. I'm rather obsessed with happiness research anyway, but it did give me pause when I picked the book up. I don't just want to read this because it's about happiness, I also want to read it because, suddenly, …
So here's the thing. I'll let weeks go by without writing, without creating anything because I don't have time. I mean it's the mantra of the age, right? We don't have time. We're very busy. I really hate that word, by the way, "busy." It's a life sucker and yet we put it on a …
I've been following the same morning routine since January. Having a plan when I get up helps me focus and move into the day smoothly, before the coffee kicks in and really wakes my brain up. I know the majority of people have been working their entire adult life, but as usual, I am not …
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