Experiencing the good old days while they happen
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 …
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, …
This morning when I took Mo for his morning walk, we saw our first bunny of spring. Now, I know some of you are just coming out of the polar vortex and reading words like "spring" seem thoughtless and taunting, and for those of you who feel that way, I have two words: Georgia Summer. …
Photo of my desk this very morning. My creative process isn't tidy and requires coffee. Can we talk about the fact that it's nearly February? It doesn't seem possible that the first month of the year is almost behind us. Personally, I feel like I climbed a mountain of hard things right at the beginning …
Someone asked me the other day about the Happiness Project. I talked about it for a few minutes, about why I paid to join a coaching system and what I hope to accomplish. Then there was a follow-up question: So how many "resolutions" do you have this year? I don't know. I'm taking it day …
On Monday of this week, we held job interviews for a couple of positions we had open at my workplace. Truth be told, I really, really love being part of a team that gives people jobs. It's amazing. However, the day of the interviews can be long and tiring. It's an enormous amount of social …
So here we are, at the dawn of a new year. I've thought quite a bit about this writing space during the waning days of 2018. I've considered its presence and its purpose, how I have used my voice and how I want to use it moving forward. I even considered how I felt about …
