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Motivation

Simple Happinesses

February 2, 2012

I thought all these pictures on my memory card were random, but really, they’re not. They all capture small, simple happinesses. I take pictures of things that are beautiful…things that make my heart happy. A Break the Ice game between Mr. FG and Sonia. Candyland too. A colorful sunset outside my back door. A date [...]

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Keeping New Year’s Resolutions?

January 20, 2012

Hey everyone! Lookee here. I’m on my blog twice in a single day. How about that? (Incidentally, I made it through my presentation this morning! Yay! And I appreciate all of your encouraging words yesterday…thank you.) I’m participating in a program BlogHer does called Life Well Lived, and the current topic we’re discussing is New [...]

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The 2011 edition of my Thankful List

November 24, 2011

Every Thanksgiving since my blog’s inception (um, a whole three years), I’ve made a list of 50 things I’m thankful for. Fifty doesn’t really have any significance, (aside from being half of one hundred, I suppose) but I find that writing down 50 things really makes me go beyond the usual stuff I think of [...]

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On Happiness and Contentment

October 27, 2011

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys.  If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky~ We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but [...]

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On sneaking candy into the movies (+ general thoughts about honesty)

September 6, 2011

The thoughts I’m going to share today have been sort of percolating in my brain for some time, but after reading the comments on one of The NonConsumer Advocate’s recent posts, I was inspired to actually get the thoughts down into a post. Those of us who are trying to save money frequently encounter the [...]

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Why talking/blogging about the good stuff is, well, good.

August 31, 2011

Sometimes, sunshine-y, look-at-the-glass-half-full sort of bloggers get flack from their readers over their incessant cheerfulness. “Be real!” “Life isn’t perfect.” “It’s all a sham.” “No one could be that happy all the time.” I haven’t experienced a lot of this, but I’ve seen people shred bloggers like Kelle Hampton (one commenter worried that reading her [...]

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