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  • THPR Writing Prompts

    What is your superpower? I’ve been stewing on this one a few days and don’t have a very fun or interesting answer. I can carry lots of dishes, a holdover from the waitress…

  • Jan. 20

    Twyla, our little Teddy Roosevelt terrier, has a tan heart-shaped spot. The pointy bit tucks into her right hip crease, the rounded tops stretching over her right haunch toward the ridge of her…

  • THPR Challenges

    *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?…

  • THPR January Challenge 1

    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…

  • Faith Journey

    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…