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It’s a Happy, Golden Day
One of my favorite toddler videos was one where they sang this sing-along: It’s a happy, golden day; come along let’s sing and play; Singing makes us feel just great, Sing a song that’s happy and bright… too-do-doo-do... It was a rare occasion that my children were...
Gauging Our Happy Meter Wattage
It’s been a bit of a rough week at work, Journeyer… I won’t bemoan the details, but let’s just say I interviewed with another district, only to be told by one of my supervisors that same afternoon that the two school systems have an “unwritten agreement” that they...
People Who Need People…
Journeyer, as many of you might have noticed, I missed my first Happy Happens post ever.Though some have been late, I haven’t actually not posted to this weekly column in years…As my long days progressed and the calendar pages flipped by and a few problems at work...
Home on a Hill
Journeyer, man was it ever a week! This hamster wheel month has reached its peak and I barely had time to breathe last week. Hardly a day passed by that I pulled out of my drive with the sun beginning to rise and returned about the time it set. That said, I managed to...
Homecoming
"Dare to dream, hope, believe, seek, feel, find, and love." ~Chinese fortune This morning I had one of those mother-child moments that was both extraordinary and ordinary. “I think you’re a pretty good egg, Big Guy,” I said to my son after he remembered that I’d asked...
To Everything There is a Season
I sit at my desk this morning wearing sweat pants, a long sleeve shirt, and warm, fuzzy footie socks.Outside my window, colorful leaves rest atop my freshly mowed lawn as a stiff breeze tests the strength of the foliage not yet ready to let go.I pause thinking and...