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Sunday, September 7, 2014

Happy #120: God can do anything.

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A miracle happened today. Thirty years ago, while working at the Canadian Embassy in Seattle, I met and made friends with a beautiful...
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Monday, February 10, 2014

Happy #119 Just in time for love.

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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...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

Happy # 118: Find your hopeful, childlike, fearless self.

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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...
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Sunday, March 3, 2013

Happy 117: Trust help will come.

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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...
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Saturday, January 5, 2013

Happy #116: Be in the experience.

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Happy Regardless may have been better named Get through it, Regardless. Get over it, Regardless. Or Take whatever comes and then move the...
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Happy #115: Ask different questions.

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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...
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Happy #114: Decide from the truth of your heart.

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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...
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Monday, December 31, 2012

Happy #113: Be clear about what you want.

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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...
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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Happy #112: Pause somebody's quiet sadness.

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These pictures of our friend Stephanie and her daughter Madi (taken by my daughter, Kelsie) capture the joy most mothers have felt ...
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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Happy #111: How cleaning the garage brought me back to Happy Regardless.

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Happy Halloween!! So, apparently I wasn't finished writing about happiness... ;-) Some time ago I signed off of Facebook because...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

Happy #110: Small Changes Ripple Outward

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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 ...
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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Happy #109: Happiness is for everyone.

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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....
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Happy # 108: Be happy regardless.

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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...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Happy # 107: God keeps His promises.

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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...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

Happy #106: Disregard the distractions.

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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...
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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Happy #105: Understand your wiring and Love As is.

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Why does our self worth depend on what other people think? (It shouldn't, btw...) My daughter, Kelsie, came home from teaching her pe...
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Friday, July 1, 2011

Happy #104: Follow the peaceful feelings.

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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...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Happy #103: Be in it well.

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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...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Happy #102: Recognize your influence.

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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...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Happy #101: Bounce back.

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Bounce back. You (and everyone you know) will suffer adversity. Given. Yesterday, the day after the disappointment I wrote about, I...
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Happy #100: Hope for more, but be grateful for and take loving care of what you have.

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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...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Happy #99: Learn to frame it differently.

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I was having dinner with my son Jackson last night when he shared personal sentiments about struggle that surprised me. Jackson is excepti...
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Light hearted, deep thinker. If you want something, go get it. Period. If there's something about your life you don't like, change it. Your life can only be as big as you think it. So think big. Unbelievably good things can happen. Even late in the game.
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