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The Keys to Happiness… Are In This Blog Post

Posted on 10 September, 2018 by dilovelyadmin

Do you ever ask yourself if you’re happy? Have you figured out what happiness is in the first place? Do you believe it to be achievable? Ostensibly, happiness is what everyone wants, but there’s a lot of debate about what that looks like, and whether it can last, and how you know when you have…

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The Gifts of Imperfection – Two-Minute Book Review

Posted on 28 November, 2016 by dilovelyadmin

Sakes alive, it’s been ages since I officially reviewed a book! More than three years, actually. Pourquoi? I started to explain, but I’ve decided it doesn’t matter! I do want to write about books, but I don’t have time to wax philosophical, and you may well not have time to read such blither-blather either. Hence…

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8 Unromantic-Sounding Ways I Know Our Marriage Will Last

Posted on 15 February, 201525 September, 2018 by dilovelyadmin

“How’s your relationship these days?” is not a question most of us ever ask people. I’ve probably only ever asked it of newlyweds (where it’s more like “How’s married life?” nudge-nudge) or of very close friends with whom I have a precedent of relationship discussions. It is a bit odd, though. Among parents, there are the constant…

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100 Happy Days – Day 36: Smiles

Posted on 6 December, 201416 December, 2014 by dilovelyadmin

“See my new smile??” they ask. (And this picture reveals a love for three oranges! Well, clementines. AB was making an orange snowperson with them.) *** [subscribe2] [ad name=”Med Rec”] ***

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100 Happy Days – Day 25: Black Lentils

Posted on 25 November, 201416 December, 2014 by dilovelyadmin

I’ll be honest. This day was a hectic, somewhat crappy day. One of those days when my kids are simultaneously screaming before 8:30 a.m.; also, one of those days when I asked myself, “Why did I become a teacher again?” Sigh. BUT. There was this bag of mysterious legumes I’d accidentally bought months ago, thinking they were…

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Remembering What We’re Built To Do

Posted on 5 August, 2014 by dilovelyadmin

When I was 18, a boy at Camp wrote a poem for me. Although I didn’t requite his crush, I still consider his poem one of the most romantic things I’ve ever received, because of its candour. The second line was “She’s just like sunshine through the trees,” and to this day I still feel…

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International Day of Happiness

Posted on 20 March, 2014 by dilovelyadmin

Hey there, lovely Di-hards, Will you help me write a blog post? Today is International Day of Happiness, as decided by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012. I have to admit, when I heard this mentioned on the radio yesterday, in the same newscast as Malaysia Airlines, Crimea, and the winter that just won’t…

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Why The Rainbow Rocks My Socks

Posted on 29 June, 201330 June, 2013 by dilovelyadmin

I grew up in the kind of household I wish all gay kids could grow up in: one where I always knew, without ever having to ask, that my parents would accept me. Well, not quite – if I’d been a Conservative/Republican, that might not have gone over well. But I never doubted that my…

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Things to be grateful for when travelling with small children

Posted on 26 June, 2013 by dilovelyadmin

Travelling with little kids is tough and stressful. As such, it would be easy to kvetch about the monkey wrench in our travels to my cousin’s wedding in New Mexico last weekend – the storm that delayed our flight from Buffalo, meaning the folks at Washington Dulles didn’t have our gate ready, meaning we missed…

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I can hardly wait to be perfect.

Posted on 27 May, 2013 by dilovelyadmin

Someday, I’m going to be SO organized that I will be perfect. In fact, my entire family will be perfect, because of my contagious perfection. (And my husband’s constant, inspirational quest for self-improvement.) This Perfect Me will get good exercise every day, outdoors when weather permits. She will remember without fail to take her vitamins….

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