By Camille, on January 15th, 2012
Happiness generally comes in tiny packages, sometimes so tiny that it’s easy to miss if you aren’t paying attention. And because I made a resolution to “Find the joy, lose the beleaguered attitude,” I need to make sure I’m not looking the other way when the bluebird of happiness flies by.
One easy way to fine [...]
By Camille, on October 30th, 2011
Check this out.
If you’ve ever seen me dance, you’ve seen these moves before. Laurel and Hardy, yup. That’s what I was bottle fed on. Invite me to your wedding and you’ll see.
By Camille, on July 9th, 2011
I turned fifty seven on June 4th and my birthday wish was this: to work less and play more. I promised myself I’d continue my transformation from human doing to human being by reducing my To Do list and taking more time for the things I enjoy. In short, I vowed to [...]
By Camille, on September 6th, 2010
I love our new clothes line! After giving a lot of thought to what kind of line I wanted, I chose the Hills Hoist Rotary Clothesline because it was durable, pretty, can easily be taken down in bad weather and spins in the breeze. I ordered it online from Breeze Dryer.
When Bob and I [...]
By Camille, on May 29th, 2010
Our "Home" en route from Maui to Nicaragua December 2004
Bob and I have been on the move all our lives and went into hyper-mobilization after we got together. We’ve moved every fifteen months on average over the eighteen years since we threw in together. Like they sing in that song, wherever we hung our [...]
By Camille, on February 25th, 2009
This was one of those days that stretched way out ahead of me like an endless sheet of clean paper. I sat at my desk and tidied all of those little loose ends that come to haunt me in the dead of night. I made lists. I tried to find things. I cleaned house.
When I [...]
By Camille, on July 2nd, 2008
I can’t explain what fascinates me about hay bales in a freshly mown field, but every time I come across this bucolic scene, I have to stop and drink it in. Bob suspects it’s the connection between hay and horses that captivates me. Naturally, I was delighted when a crew moved in to mow and [...]
By Camille, on June 9th, 2008
My intention was to go back to sleep after I said goodbye to Bob and Greg shortly after 6:00 this morning. They were headed out for a day of waste vegetable oil collection which would involve endless hours of standing on hot asphalt with a hose, sucking warm oil into the pumper truck.
The high was [...]
By Camille, on November 22nd, 2007
I’m watching the Pacific surf roll onto the beach from the west windows of Scott and Rowena’s home at dawn. I have the whole day ahead of me and it promises to be another good one, full of laughter, food, stories and hikes along the beach.
The sea foam is tinted pink as is [...]
By Camille, on October 21st, 2004
Bhutan builds “happiness” into the center of its development strategy
Not all countries measure their success in terms of gross national product. This article, titled “A Wealth of Happiness” from The Wall Street Journal describes an alternative:
Despite Bhutan being among the poorest nations in the world, almost all of its scholarship students studying overseas return home [...]
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