As I was conceptualizing what a “12 Months of Happy” project would look like, I was mulling over what elements I would need (or want) to include. How do you retrain your brain to feel happy after more than a decade of training it to feel unhappy, anyway? Well, I started by making a list …
“To me, the single biggest mark of the amateur writer is a sense of hurry. Hurry to finish a manuscript, hurry to edit it, hurry to publish it.” Charles Finch When I found this quote over the summer, it was a gut punch. I felt personally called out. (How dare you, Mr. Finch, etc, etc.) …
Dear Abby, I’m writing to you from the first official day of your 12 Months of Happy project. Congratulations. You should be proud of the work you’ve put in, mentally and emotionally, to get you here. I thought you’d like to remember why you embarked on this journey, why the cost of staying the same …
Fall always brings me an intense season of introspection. I’ve never been able to pin-point why, though I have a couple theories. My birthday is at the end of October (the very end — I’m a Halloween baby!), and the end of one year of life and the onset of another seems like a reasonable …
October stings my nostrils:the scent of harvest, skunk,and smoldering leaves heavy with dust and recent twilight.Gravel crunches patiently underfoot,monologuing in earthy tones on sediment and sand.Brittle air pinches my cheeksand the gentle roundness of your ears until they blush from the attention,red as summer, cold as frost.
