Five Things I Know To Be True
Here’s a splendid guest post from Kathryn White. 1. Everyday life deserves champagne Annie Dillard said: “How we spend our days is, of course, how spend we lives.” I’d like to point out that our days are made up of small moments, and when we let them slip by, we let our life slip by. Little [...]
10 True Beauty Tips From Audrey Hepburn
Here are a few true beauty tips from the inexhaustibly splendid Audrey Hepburn. At least, a bunch of people said they were her words until facts proved otherwise. Consider everything from this point forward her words as discovered around the web but, it turns out, gleaned from others who likely stole them from somebody else. [...]
How To Find More Time For Yourself
You deserve more time for yourself. More me time. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of me time your life must be miserable indeed. The next minute or so of our time together should help with that. Here are seven strategies to find more time for yourself. Mix and match. Pick and pull. Gather what glimmers [...]
31 Simple Ways To Add Happy To Your Day
1. Go to bed an hour earlier. If you can sleep the extra rest will work wonders for your happiness the next day, and if you can’t sleep, then using the time to read a novel will feel absolutely luxurious. 2. Get flowers for your desk. Picking wildflowers is great if you can, but even [...]
What story do your numbers tell?
Have you ever thought about how much of our identity is defined by numbers? Social Security, driver’s license, phone, credit card, salary… Numbers can reveal a lot about a person, but those aren’t the ones that do it. Here are some of the numbers that define my life: 36: age. 5-4. Height. (Mumble mumble144mumble): my [...]
Lights Out
When Rainbow Girl was two, she started picking up trash – sticky candy wrappers, crumpled bags, dented cans. She had an uncanny eye for litter, for anything that didn’t belong in her world of otherwise-green. It wasn’t long before we started calling her The Lorax, after Dr. Seuss’ “mossy-bossy” environmentalist. She hugged trees. She squished [...]
5 Things I learned I can live without
In our consumerist society, we fixate on getting things, and often forget that everything has a limit – there is a limit to how much money, time, and energy we have to spend. Instead of figuring out what else we need to get, it would probably do most of us good to think about what [...]
Five Tips to Keep Your Balance When You Don’t Know Which End is Up
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt We [...]