Puttin’ on my rose colored glasses to survive the month of February — It’s only January 28th and I’m already stressed about the month ahead. A month that hasn’t even arrived yet. And my worries about the four weeks ahead are shooting my pursuit of joy and my quest for optimism right in the patootie. So, I’ve come up with a “Plan” to…

Served with a funny side of ‘THIS is why I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions anymore!’ — Christmas was in full swing. It was two or three weeks away in the distance but approaching at too fast of a pace for me. Fortunately, I tend to buy gifts through out the year. When I see an item that a friend would like. When a great children’s toy…

At least 4 of them — 3 in my office and 1 here on Medium Yes, I’ll admit it. I was visiting Facebook the other day. I feel like I’m confessing to Medium that I went and saw an old boyfriend. While I was there, clicking like as I scrolled…

My Merry Christmas present for myself was helping this little boy get rid of his problem attire — Patches, one of the five feral cats outside, showed up sporting some new attire the last week in November. Neither of us were happy about his new look. Especially Patches. One of my earliest pieces I wrote on Medium was about the five ferals outside who claimed this as their…

When grief grabs you by the throat — 27 years later — Grief is a fickle emotion. Ever changing. Never steady. Oft times catching us unawares with a soul-wrenching intensity that takes us by surprise. We think when a loved one passes that we’ll wallow in grief and then steadily we’ll get better as our heart heals. We think it will be…

Honest! Joy is there too! — When I’m looking for information, I don’t know I check more often — Google…or YouTube. I’m constantly amazed at what you can learn about on that site. How to do hand drumming. There. Making pickles? There. Making soap? It’s there too. Gardening? Whatever do you want to know? …

Thanking all the Good Vibes Club writers that made this week great with these special stories. — We had another fun week here in Good Vibes Club with 12 writers submitting 26 stories. We celebrated joy. We listened to fables. We traveled to worlds far away. We listened to music. We wrote in response to a variety of different Medium challenges. …

Keeley’s Write More in 2023 Challenge — Today’s prompt in Keeley Schroder’s Write More in 2023 Challenge is: Your guiltiest pleasure Seeing this prompt coming up, I was stumped. I didn’t know what I was going to admit to on this. It was probably going to be another missed writing day — not because of work or…

A little mini-rant about the ‘current’ newsfeed Here I go, joining some of the others in a little mini-rant directed to Medium. Which, unfortunately, contradicts my current mission of infusing my life with JOY and OPTIMISM. I’ve been seeing comments from others complaining about all the old stories showing up…