Beat the Blues (Day 34)

I’m a pretty moody person who tends to fluctuate from one extreme to the other.  I’ve noticed it particularly this past couple years while I’ve been working a more-or-less 9-5 job for the first time in my life. I’ve noticed that some days at work I feel so positive, so upbeat, so optimistic, like everything […]

Naturcize – the key to feeling better!

It was a lazy Sunday – I had done very little bar morning yoga and a shower and as the afternoon wore on I became very unsettled, firm in the belief that by not being productive I was somehow wasting my one precious day off. Now a Buddhist monk may well have sat on his […]

coffee and scribbles

The 2016 Project: my little happiness-ritual

For Christmas, one of my brothers gifted me a small beautiful book called a Five Year Memory book.  On each page is the date of every day of the month from January through December, with five mini sections in which you are meant to write one interesting memory from that date over the course of […]

Seriously – what’s the rush??

An interesting thing happened when I was driving to work a few days ago.  It was about 9.30 am and I had been warned to leave early and go slow as the roads were icy. Then a car pulled out of a driveway ahead of me and I understood what real slow driving was. A lazy […]