Weekly Happiness

Weekly Happiness

Hey! How's your week going? On Monday we had to drive an hour to sell flowers for a local high school's graduation ceremony at 7 AM and then when we got back we had to unload in the rain, and I definitely got a cold or something from all that, so the past couple days...

Fat Flesh Doesn’t Equal Nudity

Fat Flesh Doesn’t Equal Nudity

Recently, I was asking for Instagram tips and someone said something which has been mentioned to me many times before, which is that they don't like how much "nudity" I post on social media. I've been thinking about it, and here's my response: I don't post nude...

50 Ways To Change Up Your Routine

50 Ways To Change Up Your Routine

When I worked at the psych rehab, most of my clients complained they felt like they were in a rut. They woke up at the same time every day, took medication, took public transportation to our day program, took classes, at lunch, went home, watched TV, ate the same...

Doughnut Day

Doughnut Day

It's not really a secret that the blogosphere is obsessed with doughnuts. Well, pretty much everyone. It's like when people make jokes that cops love doughnuts I get confused because all I can think is, "Yeah because they're also people, right?" Well, the first Friday...

April’s 40th Birthday Blowout

April’s 40th Birthday Blowout

I met April out of sheer luck at a time in my life when I was saying yes to absolutely everything. I had no idea how lucky I was when I first met her that day in her newly-moved-in house, as I yarnbombed the handrails of her basement stairs because she wanted people...

100 Ways To Add Magic To Your Life

100 Ways To Add Magic To Your Life

I believe that we have the opportunity to make every single day of our lives magic. Some days we make that happen, and some days we don't, but it's always our choice. Magic means different things to different people, and the past year or two, I've really gotten more...

5 Ways To Decrease Your Anxiety

5 Ways To Decrease Your Anxiety

Anxiety disorders affect over three million Americans every year, and that’s not including those who go undiagnosed and untreated. That’s a pretty big number, especially considering how little it’s understood. Anxiety and depression are the more common types of mental...

You’re Still Young

You’re Still Young

I've always loved the black and white image of the old lady on a ladder, painting graffiti. People often send me the link to articles about the lady who's over 100 and is "still" yarnbombing. It's great, I love those stories. I hope to be doing this stuff when I'm...

Honk If You Love Sunshine

Honk If You Love Sunshine

Continuing on with the Honk If You... series, I've got a "Honk If You Love Sunshine" sign to share with you! For this installment of the series, I went to the hipster-y Hampden neighborhood. Lots of people honked, but not as many as I would have thought, and for as...

Weekly Happiness

Weekly Happiness

So first up, it's that time of year: I'm heading to Playa Del Fuego from Thursday to Sunday. I have no cell reception and will be unreachable in pretty much every sense of the word. Thanks for being patient with waiting for responses, etc. till I return. Speaking of...