• We were always monsters

    I received a short prompt in the Happier app to give me a little boost today, and here it is: Spend five minutes thinking about the scents associated with your favorite holiday. First,…

  • More Happier – Small Updates

    In the airport on the way home from a business trip, I came across the book “Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the…

  • A meditation or two

    On Mother’s Day I decide to go to Whole Foods to buy enough flowers to fill vases all through the house. I usually go there to buy a tiny $10.00 clutch of posies…

  • Jazz Festing

    We went to jazz fest last Sunday. We brought camp chairs this time and parked at the Fais Do Do stage all day. Jazz Fest is set up at the 145 acre racetrack…

  • What the pandemic hath wrought

    I can remember at some point in maybe 2019 (nope – it was April 2018, I wrote briefly about it!) marveling about how we had landed right where I wanted to be. A…