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I’ve been having some unkind thoughts lately. A few people have crossed my path who have inspired me with a terrific desire to gossip about them, to talk about their faults. So far, I’ve resisted, but I can feel my resolve crumbling. It’s not nice to talk trash about other people – even to say accurate things. These aren’t situations …
Every Wednesday is Tip Day. This Wednesday: Five tips for creating your own set of happiness commandments. Yesterday, I posted examples of happiness commandments from several people to inspire folks to get started on their OWN happiness projects. Today’s tips are about how to construct your own set of happiness commandments. To get you thinking, here are my Twelve Commandments: …
A few weeks ago, I posted about my epiphany that EVERYONE should have a happiness project. Join in! Start your own! I need to figure out some systematic way to address this topic, but until I do, I think I’ll just throw out some provocative suggestions to get people thinking. One of the most difficult — and most helpful and …
Recently the Big Man and I had to make changes to our wills, and zoikes, there’s nothing like seeing the words “LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT” in that lawyerly, old-fashioned typewriter-style Courier font, to act as a memento mori. Tomorrow is our wedding anniversary, and although it’s an unconventional way to celebrate, a great tradition would be to use our anniversary …
Tuesday will be my wedding anniversary, so in honor of that day, I decided to post one of the readings we had at our wedding ceremony. It’s actually an entire short story, called “I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone,” by Richard Brautigan, from a wonderful collection of his very short stories,
