Today, for the first time literally in years, I managed to walk for 20 minutes on the treadmill. I was not going at a fast pace. Just a nice...

I confess I'm having trouble with the contentment thing. I seem to be a bundle of nerves, having mild panic attacks every time I leave t...

Today has been a bit frazzled, so contentment has been a bit hard worn, but perhaps that makes it all the sweeter. I found contentment in pl...

We're also having much cooler weather, which is welcome, but still no rain. Our drought is not yet over and it's too late to save th...

I thumbed through old papers this morning, looking for a manual on a piece of machinery my husband couldn't find. In doing so, I stumble...

Today I am content because I made it to Food Lion and back without incident. You never know what's going to happen to you when you step ...

I enjoyed the August Happiness Challenge so much that I'm going to keep on doing it in September. But I'm going to call it September...

Today I am happy because I didn't break the camera. Yesterday, we had a lightning storm. More lightning than rain, with lots of thunder....

Around 3 p.m., my husband came rushing in the house to tell me he'd lost his cellphone. I tried to call his number, and it went straight...

This should have been yesterday's notation, but here goes. Last night we went to my father's to visit with my cousin and his wife wh...

Today I went back to the dentist, having been there on Monday, so she could do her thing to create a crown for a front tooth. I initially ba...

Happiness is a clean house. Today the young woman who helps me with the heavy cleaning came and did the mopping and such that I have had dif...

This afternoon following a dental appointment, I stopped in one of my old haunts. I went by the newspaper office to visit with B.J., the wom...

Today my husband took me to lunch. We had salads. Then we went to Roanoke to Target. I seldom shop there but we picked up some things we nee...

Today I am happy my husband was around to get the wayward calves back inside the fence. Chasing cows is not my strong suit, though I have do...

  My fingertips are blackened with ink!  This makes me very happy. I have been going through old newspapers, looking at articles I wrote 30 ...

Today I am happy because I finally have a short way of saying what I tend to be long winded about - what it is I want from government. I hea...

Today it's back to school for the little kiddies. My great niece is starting her first day of kindergarten. Her younger brother headed o...

This morning, I showered and then sat down to watch the women's basketball game in the Olympics. It was a nail-biter with the USA taking...

Today I am happy because we had rain. We did not have flooding rain, at least not here (some of the neighboring communities did), but we had...