A Bit of Happy #13: Dinovember
If you haven’t heard about Dinovember yet, take a look at this post. What an amazing project, and how lucky are those kids? We all need a bit of the magical in our lives. My final semester of college,...
View ArticleA Bit of Happy #9: The Memory is in There
Years ago when one of my nephews was just a baby, we had a game we liked to play together. Now that he is back from Poland, I had the chance to spend some time with him in person for the first time in...
View ArticleA Bit of Happy #8: Citrus Trees
The weather has done its best this year to kill off all my plants. Thankfully, I was able to share the fruits of them and even share some of the plants themselves with friends just the same. One of the...
View ArticleA Bit of Happy #7: People Who Heal
Two years ago I wrote about the healing that was happening in Ethiopia at the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital. A fistula is an injury sustained during childbirth that leaves a woman leaking urine and body...
View ArticleA Bit of Happy #6: Christian Ferras Playing Sibelius
I first discovered Jean Sibelius (among many other wonderful things) in Tennessee. I love libraries, but I will always have a special fondness for Nashville’s for this reason (along with the fact that...
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A Bit of Happy #5: My Own, Private Shakespeare Garden
I can take only a very small amount of credit for the completion of this project that I’ve had in mind for several years. This winter, my stepdad built a raised bed garden for me with dimensions that...
View ArticleA Bit of Happy #23: The Power of Gummi Bears
Mister Rogers wrote a song that I think to myself often. It’s called “What Do You Do with the Mad that You Feel?” and I can totally relate to the opening lyric when I’m having a rough time: What do...
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A Bit of Happy #22: Infertility, My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, and Spry Gum
Dear Helen, Dear John, It happened again. This whole reliving conversations from the past as I find myself having almost the same exact ones in the present, and it’s like a decade didn’t happen. I...
View ArticleA Bit of Happy #18: Eccentric Aunts
I remember one night in Georgia when my mom’s boss and her husband came over for dinner. I believe it took an entire two minutes before the husband turned to my sister and me and told us, “You two are...
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Because
Because he knew about me going blind and having a heart problem before he asked me out. Because when he asked me out and my answer wasn’t “Yes” or “No” but a loaded “I struggle to feel safe with men”...
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