Category: Good Times

So here we are, and I need to be honest, I go into rather painstaking detail in this series so if you are not particularly interested in the details of my schedule, come on back next week 🙂 .

Hi all. Recently I decided to keep a time diary to learn how I actually use my time, and this whole week I’ve been taking detailed notes. This hasn’t necessarily been a representative week (my work schedule was unusually light and I am between PhD semesters), but it’s been very educational. I’m going to post about each day of this …

When I worked along the school calendar, I had summers off which I have to say was a regrettably underappreciated part of my previous job. Now I have a typical twelve month work calendar, but I don’t want summer to pass me by. My first year working through the summer, I took a short hiatus to visit my sister in …

I’ve been looking around for a meaningful volunteering opportunity. I loved how some of these sounded but for one reason or another they won’t work for me. Sharing in case you happen to appreciate this sort of thing:

My therapist shared an article with me about helpful grief supports and as it turns out, the most helpful support people found was in their pet.

Apparently, April is National Card and Letter Writing Month, who knew? This was established by the United States Postal Service in 2001 for ulterior motives 😉 .

I came across the following quote from E. L. Doctorow twice recently, once in the book Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott and once in a blog post by Gretchen Rubin:

A few years ago I wrote about birthday traditions I shared with friends, but this topic needs another look, as those traditions have since faded. Last year I had a first date on my birthday (lol)

The other night I sat myself down and calculated my net worth. Ripped off the band-aid! This led me to do some reflection on how I use money and what my values around money are. Money is a tool and everyone uses it differently for the things that are important to them.