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Three Months In, What Have I Learned?

I read Gretchin Rubin’s bood “The Happiness Project” last fall and it inspired me to start my own happiness project in 2025. As we move into spring, I’m proud to say that its still going strong. In January, I started the project by dedicating 15 minutes a day to creative time, 15 minutes to meditation, and 15 minutes to stretching using Qi Gong, yoga, or other similar exercises to open mind,…

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The energy is building for April 5th. The big question is what happens on April 6th and beyond. How do we engage beyond rallies?

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Thousands are standing up for democracy across the US. Lessons learned in Wisconsin in 2011 can help keep people safe in this age of protest.

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It's a long journey from broken to owning happiness. How does it happen?

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Marching into March with my Happiness Project 2025. Join me in my joyous travels.

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Happiness Project 2025- Starting February

Okay, so a little slow on updating, but the journey is going forward. Here's the update on where my Happiness Project 2025 is today.

Okay, so I’m not doing so great at getting a post out to my blog at least once a week to update the world on the status of my happiness project. Maybe that’s okay. Maybe every two weeks or so will be just fine for the updates. What does matter, at least to me and I suppose that’s what’s most important in this project, is that I am doing a good job keeping up with my commitments to myself with the…

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My Happiness Project 2025: Update 1

Two weeks already since my happiness project 2025 started! Wow, time flies! What's happened so far and what I'm learning.

Wait a second, two weeks have passed already??? Wow! Even with so many kids at school sick, making our numbers low and slowing everything down, the world sure speeds up when you go back to work after winter break. When I started this project I was wrapping up a relaxing two week holiday break from my career as a special education teacher at a local elementary school and wondering how I might…

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Starting My Own Happiness Project in 2025

Starting 2025: Recognizing My Guides

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Starting 2025: Recognizing My Guides

Embarking on my 2025 happiness project, I've been asking myself what supports me. What supports you to be happy?

Early in her book “The Happiness Project”, Gretchen Rubin speaks to the overarching principles that seemed to emmerge for her. What she created were her own ‘ Twelve Commandments’ and a set of ‘Secrets of Adulthood’, tools that would guide and support her in reaching her goals in her happiness project. While I’m not quite connecting with either the ‘Twelve Commandments’ or the ‘Secrets of…

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My Own Happiness Project for 2025

It's been a while since I've posted to my blog. It seems that 2025 is time to start again.

Looking back at my posts here. It seems that 2024 was a slow year for my writing here. Maybe 2025 can turn that around again. I recognize that I’m walking into 2025 through a Wisconsin winter that even without snow has its dark and cold traveling into a political situation that promises discord and continuing in job in special education that wears at the body and soul even with the beautiful kids…

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My Own Happiness Project for 2025

Looking back at my posts here. It seems that 2024 was a slow year for my writing here. Maybe 2025 can turn that around again. I recognize that I’m walking into 2025 through a Wisconsin winter that even without snow has its dark and cold traveling into a political situation that promises discord and continuing in job in special education that wears at the body and soul even with the beautiful kids…

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Coming Back to Reality. Now What?

Right now it feels as if I may be writing this to simply catch what I experienced before it is lost in the winds of reality. It’s Monday now. I just got home on Friday from having spent nearly three weeks at Karme Choling, a Shambala retreat center in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. I feel like I’ve lived in at least two totally different worlds in the past month, maybe more. First, let’s just…

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The Next Chapter

It’s hard to believe that I’ve not written in eight months. I had no idea it had been that long. It’s one of those things that seems as if it was only yesterday and at the same time feels a lifetime ago. I got home from my travels in Europe to a stint of being underemployed that changed my life once again. Some people stay with jobs they don’t believe in and that tear apart their souls so they…

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Reflections on My Travels 2023- A Travel in Time and Understanding

I have a basket in my living room that holds a collection of precious belongings; stones, sweetgrass, cedar, tobacco, scraps of cloth, and bits of fur, little memories from other adventures throughout my life and gifts from relatives who’ve since moved on. In that basket is a piece of concrete with splatterings of paint. I like to believe that it was once part of a peace symbol, but who knows.…

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Reflections on My Travels 2023- The Alps

I’ve loved mountains since I was a little girl living among the tiny waves of the glaciated region of Wisconsin. Hills tell us so much. They are the home of our ancestors, those giant stones that tell the stories of our past and the trees that reach to the skies to show us where we’re going. The creeks and rivers that run through sing the songs of life and remind us of who we are. It was a dream…

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Reflections on my Travels 2023-- The First Days in Europe

It’s been just over a month now since I’ve gotten home from my trip in Europe. I’m a bit behind in putting my stories in writing, so it’s time to add to my blog and enjoy the chance to look back on the adventures a bit. I ended my role as Director of Solace Friends at the end December and left immediately after on my travels. I flew out of Madison on the 28th and landed in Frankfurt, Germany on…

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Thoughts On Being a Part of the Wisconsin Movement

It’s been twelve years now since thousands of angry, scared, and broken hearted Wisconsinites spent weeks camping out on the cold marble floors of our state capitol in an attempt to protect workers rights. While we didn’t win an immediate victory, we did change what organizing looked like in Wisconsin and throughout the US. I was the person that the Teaching Assistants Association (TAA) called on…