A miracle happened today. Thirty years ago, while working at the Canadian Embassy in Seattle, I met and made friends with a beautiful...

It's been awhile. Ok, a year. I'm not sure what happened here, besides life. But I've learned so much since I've been g...

Where were you when you were 10? More importantly, who were you? What were you doing? What were you thinking? How did you think about you...

A week ago today I woke in the middle of the night to chaos. There was banging around at my back door. Someone was yelling, making loud a...

Happy Regardless may have been better named Get through it, Regardless. Get over it, Regardless. Or Take whatever comes and then move the...

2012/13 New Year's Eve fireworks. Downtown Salt Lake City, UT About a month ago my friend LaDawn gave me a priceless little treasur...

January 1st of a new year is a good time to make up your mind. In my experience, it doesn't take time to change. It just takes...

Woman on Houseback by Joyce L. Jones June 6, 1932 - December 25, 2012 Let me preface this post by saying what we all know: clarity i...

These pictures of our friend Stephanie and her daughter Madi (taken by my daughter, Kelsie) capture the joy most mothers have felt ...

Happy Halloween!! So, apparently I wasn't finished writing about happiness... ;-) Some time ago I signed off of Facebook because...

You know the furrowed brow look? The one that says intense focus or worried or STRESSED? The one you find on the face of most people trying ...

August 24, 2011, I wrote what I thought would be my last post on this blog. Following that entry I began an attempt to write about love....

This will be my last post on this blog. I began this journey almost two years ago as a way to document the process of finding happiness duri...

The other morning I was on a run and had started up the hill in the graveyard when all the sprinklers turned on. Within minutes there were...

Ok, I know this is a ridiculous image in all the cheesy ways light up, sparkly, (and I love things that sparkle, but not these) online cut...

Why does our self worth depend on what other people think? (It shouldn't, btw...) My daughter, Kelsie, came home from teaching her pe...

It's Canada Day. And I've just returned home from spending the last four days making daily visits to the precious little town of B...

I stood outside my home last night and looked up at the stars. Salt Lake City is well lit, so there aren't many readily observable bit...

It's Father's Day. My father died tragically when I was 15. He called me Pinky (& Pink) from the day I was born until the d...

Bounce back. You (and everyone you know) will suffer adversity. Given. Yesterday, the day after the disappointment I wrote about, I...

By now you've all figured out I write as a way to work myself out of a place that is less than "happy". So bear with me, thi...

I was having dinner with my son Jackson last night when he shared personal sentiments about struggle that surprised me. Jackson is excepti...