Interesting:
Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life. -Benjamin Franklin
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I’m technically on leave this afternoon, so I’m gonna sneak in this quick at-work post before I leave to pick up my aunt at the airport. We’re off to a family reunion week on Friday, so posts will likely be sparse until I return June 4th.
I got an email ad for a book from the […]

Hey, look at me, I’m live blogging :). I’m watching Oprah’s Legends Ball. Boy, do I wish I was an influential black woman…what a party!
But Oprah just shared this as part of the show, and it was a bit of an “a ha” for me:
I think happiness is having something to look forward to.
More later. […]

Last weekend I went to see Akeelah and the Bee with my nieces. What a great movie! If you like feel-good stories, I’d encourage you to go see this even if you don’t have a child escort :).
One of the inspirational parts of the movie is its (edited) use of a Marianne Williamson quote:
Our deepest […]

I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions, and I long ago gave up giving up things for Lent. But there’s something about spring, especially here in DC, that inspires me.
I lived nearly twenty years in Boston, so a New England fall still has to be my favorite season, but spring in DC is pretty close. […]

So today’s Oprah was a repeat from a show last May. One of her guests was Mireille Guiliano, author of the book French Women Don’t Get Fat.
So she went thru her litany of why French women aren’t so fat, and it had a lot to do with the amount of pleasure they get from […]

My favorite quote in the world has to be this one (which I’ve already posted here once):

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of […]

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

I know I promised part 3 of my food and fat thread, but I had another episode of bleeding related to my fibroids and I wound up in the emergency room at 5AM on Sunday morning. Just as in the past, this eventually resolved itself, but it […]

So, Wayne Dyer is back with a new book and a new PBS show called Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling.
I’m not sure why, but I thought his previous program, on intention, was better. Maybe it’s because the former program wound up being really instrumental in my progress this past year (as I’ve mentioned before).
Anyways, I […]

When you’re not getting spammed, blog comments just are the best. The recent rash of comments has prompted me to go coder on you and add recent comments to the right nav. Hope you like it!
One of these comments was from PastaQueen, who has a very, very interesting blog called Half of Me, which I’ve […]

Calligraphy by Sherrie Lovler
I love this quote from Anaïs Nin:

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

I had seen a black and white ad for the calligraphy above in a magazine years ago, which I had cut out and held […]

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always […]