A Line in the Sand

I spent the majority of Today writing (Author’s Note: I was drafting this on Thursday). I was looking forward to it. I had planned for it: I had the day off work and I could spend that time doing what I wanted, and I wanted to get some writing done. Needless to say, at the …

Five-Thing Thursday: October 14th.

Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: #DailyDelights is starting to show results. I’m more “There” more often during the day. What’s more, other folk are starting to respond when a particular Daily Delight strikes them Thing #2: I think this …

Daily Delight

Today I want to talk about an idea that I came across while listening to The Happiness Lab Podcast with Dr. Laurie Santos. The idea is a simple one: Find one thing each day that delights you. The “Rules” are equally simple: If it delights you, it counts. There’s no sliding scale. There is no …

Self-Care

I’ve said it before here, but there are times where I’m not just talking to you, Reader. Sometimes I use this platform for myself. This past fortnight has been a mess. Developments at the day job have kept me in complete Emergency/Damage control mode 100% of the time and things on the home front have …

Five-Thing Thursday: September 30th.

Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: This past weekend, Sara Cox became the first female referee to oversee a European Premiereship Rugby Match. Well done! And I hope there’s more to come. Thing #2: Yesterday I hosted my friends JeanRabe …

One Bale at a Time

I am 51 years old. Over the course of two days, I have stacked nearly 300 bales of hay. By hand. For those of you not familiar, these are square bales – close to 3 or 3.5 feet long maybe a foot and a half wide (Yes, I know that’s not a square, but that’s …

Five-Thing Thursday: September 23rd.

Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: Check out Rina Sawayama’s cover of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” You can find it here. It’s Awesome! Thing #2: It’s raining outside my window as I’m typing this and it’s the most soothing sound. Thing …