“the closer I get, the target keeps moving”
Some months ago, I came across singer/songwriter Taylor Leonhardt through the The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill podcast (they played her The Bridge track …
Contentment
Being easily pleased is a superpower
This morning, I was thinking about how when we all make our thankful lists on Thursdays, we are often mentioning small things that bring us …
My neighborhood: good or bad?
Today, I’m going to start out by telling you all the lovely things about my neighborhood. The neighborhood I live in borders a river. This …
On aging
I recently read Justine Bateman’s new book, Face (from the library, naturally). It’s a collection of essays about aging, and the premise is that our …
How do you make peace with things breaking?
A reader left a comment on my post about my washing machine breaking, with the suggestion that her questions could be a post topic. In …
I kayaked. And I got very discontented.
Recently, on a sunny Saturday morning, Mr. FG and I were kayaking out on the river our neighborhood borders. There were so many reasons to …
6 ways to make your house more lovely for $0
If you have a big fat home-improvement budget, then making your home beautiful is no great challenge. But since most of us have a lot …
Marketers do not want you to be content.
Long Intro: On Monday, I wrote a Five Frugal Things post that mentioned CoolSculpting. And I wrote a few words about body image, and about …
The gap between more and enough never closes.
This quote, on a sign at Jimmy John’s, caught my eye recently. (I tried googling to see who came up with it, but I can’t …
Some things that are making me happy
Because this is a very good exercise to do on the regular. 😉 Join me in the comments! The trees are getting leaves. The myriad …
Does contentment lead to complacency?
Last week when I posted a few quotes about contentment, there was a little discussion in the comments about how contentment can lead to complacency. …
On being content with a teeny bathroom
We live in a two-level house, and there’s a bathroom on each level. Upstairs, by the kids’ bedrooms, is the bathroom I painted gray this …
4 things that are making me happy and 1 thing that’s not
1. I have a sweet new niece! There were a few scares during my sister-in-law’s pregnancy, but this little miss is here safe and sound. …
Some things that are making me happy
It’s Monday, and I thought you and I could both benefit from a little looking-at-the-bright-side time to combat the Monday blues. Ok, well, I know …
“Looking at the bright side is so unrealistic!”
I’ve written about contentment a lot in the 8 years I’ve been blogging, and whenever I write about or talk about contentment/optimism/looking at the bright …