Category: Categorizing Things is Overrated

*THPR is The Happiness Project Revisited, and in January we have a week of prompts. Here are a few more. These are boring navel-gazing, fair warning: Are You Promotion Focused or Prevention Focused? Do I gravitate toward achievement-related goals, or risk-avoidance goals? She framed this as being the difference between setting a healthy eating goal…

Describe your current season of life. What do you appreciate about it? What makes it different from other times in your life? I am no longer young, but not yet old. The boys don’t take every scrap of energy and attention like they used to – parenting is a much lower pressure exercise these days….

In her 1993 book “Dakota,” Kathleen Norris describes growing up in a Methodist church where her father was choir director. From toddler age she sang in the cherub choir, and took the sheet music home with her so her mother could play it on the piano while Norris sang along, sitting in her mother’s lap…

(*the amount of friction I have removed from writing here more by simply titling these with the date is huge. “Thinking up a title” can sometimes just stop me in my tracks entirely.) Pretty things. I set myself up with some pretty things at the start of this year. “Beautiful tools make work a joy.”…

January 6 was Twelfth Night – and that means we now have King Cake on the counter! Carnival season has begun. I am in a walking krewe this year called the Candy Girls. We wear purple wigs and purple spangly outfits and do coordinated marching dances to various songs about candy and sugar. They slot…