Follow Your Happiness

Life is not always good. I am sure that news is positively shocking to you, as you are checking out a website geared toward positive thinking and tips for optimism. My mother and I had a fantastic conversation today – the kind we haven’t had in years. I asked her to call me for something [...]

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Are you considering beginning an exercise plan?  Have you previously worked out regularly and then gone on to lose the fervor you had when you began?  Are you only just now emerging from winter hibernation?  Well, if your objectives are to lose weight, to look better, feel better, improve overall health, or any of the [...]

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It’s true that I haven’t been around or updating lately. Justin proposed to me the weekend he and I were in San Antonio and I’ve been very wrapped up in other things since then, like spending time with my family here and with Justin, who subsequently came down with some sort of allergy-induced illness. Yesterday [...]

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It started off like most days with the phone waking me up. Then after my usual cup of tea and email I started wondering what I actually have to do today. After deciding that, yes, the laundry can wait as can the work that’s not really pressing as yet, I decided to have a total [...]

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As mentioned in a previous post, I am in San Antonio with Justin for the weekend – visiting families and enjoying some of our favorite places, like the Riverwalk and Tomatillos on Broadway. Yummm! This morning, we crawled out of bed and headed to my grandmother’s house where she made biscuits and gravy for us. [...]

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Boy, was it hot today! I’m not sure what the temperature actually was since the weatherman said the high was 97 in San Antonio, but, a friend’s son told me on his way to San Marcos (where we were at the time) it was 102. What’s 5 degrees at that point? But, heat aside, it [...]

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Pre-post-apologies for the brevity of this post, but I am following my happiness straight up to Boston for a weekend away. Granted, tomorrow will be rainy and cold, but I guess that’s just nature’s own desire comin’ out ;) I dunno if I am way behind the times, but last night I was introduced to [...]

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This morning I was in a weird zone – I was journaling again on the bus into the city, but this time felt a revelation. I was really feeling that the moments we have in life – those ellusive, transitory, purely good moments, are what we wade through everything else for – and they are [...]

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I hope you all had a wonderful Wellness Wednesday. If you’re wondering what to do one day after work but don’t want to make a big production out of it, I have a couple of simple suggestions for you. Tips for getting outside: photo by Constantin Jurcut Take a walk around your neighborhood, zigzagging through [...]

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I hope everyone had a great Tuesday! I am sorry we’ve had some technical problems with the reliability of our server today. This Trivia Tuesday question will be easy since I didn’t receive a straight-forward answer last time. I also found out that some folks weren’t participating because they had to look up the answers. [...]

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