A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind along without corporeal friend. – Emily Dickinson When I was a kid my Nana was my pen pal. I sent letters and cards to other family members, too, but most of my regular correspondence came from Nana. We talked about spring flowers,Continue reading “Week Thirteen: Send Someone a Card “Just Because””
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Week Twelve: Listen to an Old Favourite Song
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. – Bob Marley No matter how “evolved” I may imagine my taste in music has become (coolness level: Single Malt Whisky) there is no escaping the flood of dopamine-induced nostalgia when I hear the first few notes of an old favourite fromContinue reading “Week Twelve: Listen to an Old Favourite Song”
Week Eleven: Get Lost in a Secondhand Bookstore
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries. – Descartes When the rest of the world is on fire, I can step across the threshold of Hannelore Headley Old & Fine Books and be instantly transported to a much simpler time. I somehow find myself inContinue reading “Week Eleven: Get Lost in a Secondhand Bookstore”
Week Ten: Make Dinner for a Friend
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill I had been looking forward to this week from the beginning. I love to cook and I love to entertain people in our home. In fact, it’s about the closest thing I do on a regular basis to “adulting” andContinue reading “Week Ten: Make Dinner for a Friend”
How to Be Happy 