Sometimes I feel like scrolling through a Facebook newsfeed can be a thousand points of jealousy for me. “So let’s see. Judy printed a gluten free recipe…I should probably give up gluten.  Oh, Sally finished her triathlon. She looks all shiny and accomplished. Well. Good. For. Her.  Oh, look at the Jones’s kids, they did a photo…

I should take a minute to talk about my exercise plan.  So far it mostly involves me getting up early or staying up late and working on writing.  I have been fairly dedicated and my fingers are getting sleek, toned and awesome.  I don’t want to brag, but I totally have Michelle Obama fingers. Needless to say I…

I was in the waiting room of a doctor’s office when I picked up an issue of Better Homes and Gardens.  As I flipped through the colorful pages of recipes and what sort of origami can make your child’s birthday party table festive, I came across an article about how a woman had made use of a…

I looked through many quotes on contentment to begin this post.  There were several good ones made by great people: Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, Henry David Thoreau, but none of them worked. So I decided that I should start this post not with a quote, but instead with trying to explain the feeling that rises up…

I am ill prepared for any sort of apocalypse. I have come to this conclusion from watching multiple disaster movies over the years. In these movies there is some sort of horrible event.  These inciting incidents of the apocalypse vary.  You’ve got your tidal waves, your earthquakes, your ominous giant meteors, your sudden ice age. Then there…