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(Only) Happy Things Friday: 28 June

My posts have had more than enough angst to go around lately, so I’m coming at you with exclusively happy things today.

It is sunny outside.

It is sunny and pleasantly cool. That combo is…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • Jun, 28, 2024
  • 32 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 21 June

Fail alert. Less than a week ago I said I was done with Happy Things Friday posts for the summer but I just couldn’t stick with that decision.

I’ve been in a low-grade funk all…

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  • Happy Things Friday, Mental Health
  • Jun, 21, 2024
  • 46 Comments

Hard Things, Happy Things: 7 June

It is June. Really and truly…we’re in the middle month of the year!?

I feel like I need to write a catchy little jingle about this season of life, because it’s an echo of what…

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  • Happy Things Friday, Mental Health
  • Jun, 07, 2024
  • 40 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 31 May

And just like that…May is over (I wrote this before Nicole posted but…ditto what she said). This means we have a little over a month to go until the half-way point of 2024.

I have…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • May, 31, 2024
  • 45 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 24 May

The world seems shrouded in heaviness lately. Some of it is the era (COVID was an unprecedented experience; we’re living through periods of major political, economic and climate upheaval), and some of it is…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • May, 24, 2024
  • 35 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 17 May

Hello!! It feels good to be writing again. It also felt good to go offline and just…be.

I spent the last few weeks trying to focus on rest (to the degree it was within…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • May, 17, 2024
  • 37 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 3 May

Um, what now? It’s MAY?? How did that happen?

Also, thank goodness. I’m not sure how much more winter (or pseudo-spring) I could withstand. Some days it’s sunny and warm and other days I…

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  • Cool Bloggers Walking Club, Happy Things Friday
  • May, 03, 2024
  • 30 Comments
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