All of America is writing “I am thankful” on Facebook this morning, and I am reminded that I have not written a contentment diary post in quite some time. Somewhere earlier in the year, I […]

Woe is me, I thought when I sat down and asked myself what I wanted to write about on my blog today. But how to label that, I wondered, and of course the only real […]

It’s been a while since I’ve written a contentment diary entry. I feel content today. I feel like I’m being eaten alive by a thousand hungry catfish. Though that could just be a hundred unanswered […]

It’s after 10. I just got out of a meeting. Today has lasted a year. Tomorrow might last two years. That’s about all I have to add to my contentment diary right now. Lots of […]

The aggravating part about blog-a-days is that once you’ve said you’ll do them you feel obligated to continue even when you’ve had a long day and have nothing in particular to say. That said, what […]

Tuckered out I believe is the official term for how I feel right now, though I’m trying to quit saying things like “I’m tired,” “I’m too busy,” or “I’m stressed out.” Points off for unnecessary […]

Today I chased details in all directions. Because every idea sounds like a good idea when it first flows out of my mouth, I now find myself planning multiple events at once. This means I […]

Today was one of those days. Yes, a day it was. Nothing bad happened. It wasn’t that kind of day. It was just a day in which I showed up, did some stuff, and went […]

Today someone mentioned the book, Happiness Project, and I thought, “Great. Another happy-go-lucky memoir meant to guilt people into believing they aren’t trying hard enough to improve their own lives (and into buying the book, […]

Today was supposed to be my first day back at work after the Christmas break. It would have been registration, which would have meant that just about the time the panic truly set in about […]