Does it Ever Get Easier?

I keep waiting for it to get easier.  Certainly, some of these things should be easier by now, right? None of what was “hard” was out of the ordinary. For example, I got back to exercising this week.  Certainly, it wouldn’t be hard to get back to this?  It’s an hour or so, of walking …

100 Days of Summer – A Review of the Happiness Planner

I spent the 100 days of summer using the Happiness Planner.  The planner style I’m using is a 3-month version. I picked it up by chance when I had a gift certificate from Anthropology and thought it looked the mid year pick-me-up I need. It was. The planner starts by asking what makes you happy & …

Goals – Update 1

My last post was around my goals for the New Year and how even though I had 100% failure rate with last year’s personal goals, I was trying again. I thought an update was in order mostly because if I get off track, it is usually pretty quickly. Here is what I am finding – …

Train Trip Day 3

11/24/15 7:30 PM Up at 5:30 AM and found we were almost in Kansas City – I opened my room’s drape to see the glowing red sign proclaiming, “Jack Stack BBQ.” I knew exactly where I was! The conductor let us have a “fresh air break” at the trainstation and I paced back and forth by …

Train Trip Final Day

11/25/15, 6:45 PM   It is a good thing my iphone always knows where I am because on a train, you’d have no idea- Yesterday we moved on to a new train and this had a smoother ride for sleeping and I was out till 7AM. My iphone told me I was in Ohio – Found the coffee, …

Train Travel Day 2

November 23, 4:43 PM Someone told me that you sleep really well on a train. That is not proving true for me. Sure, it might be the tiny bed but really, I think it is the constant shaking of the train. I’d fall asleep and 20 minutes later I’d wake up thinking it was an …

Train Travel Day 1

November 22, 2015, 5:55PM I am not totally sure why I am here. It started when I heard about a week-long residency Amtrak offered to writers. The idea caught my imagination and before I knew it, I had applied. I didn’t get it. But, not one to let that throw me, I started thinking about …