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Connecting in Toronto

By NataliePosted on October 3, 2019
  • Happiness
  • Travel

I’m in Canada! I arrived in Toronto yesterday for my first visit to Canada. The connections here are threefold: One, visiting and staying with family […]

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That Fleeting Virtue

By NataliePosted on September 28, 2019
  • Happiness
  • Writing

Patience yields focus. That’s what Shiro says on Voltron and maybe explains while I feel distinctly unfocused today. That fleeting virtue of patience has never […]

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A Nice Place To Be

By NataliePosted on September 20, 2019
  • Happiness

You spend most of your life inside your head . . . make it a nice place to be. I shared this quote on my […]

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A Tendency to Catastrophize

By NataliePosted on August 21, 2019
  • Happiness

We are going through a lot of change right now in my workplace. I’ve seen people process this change with a range of reactions: speculation, […]

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Against All Odds

By NataliePosted on August 19, 2019
  • Happiness

“It was such a throwaway sound now, that laugh. An easy one that said it could be spent so easily because there were more where that one came from. The wound was healing against all odds; the victim would make it after all.”

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It Only Takes A Day

By NataliePosted on August 17, 2019January 1, 2020
  • Habits & Goals
  • Happiness

Sometimes a reset takes years. It takes months of the same cycle and breaking it and syncing in again and small steps up and up […]

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An Impulse Decision

By NataliePosted on August 15, 2019
  • Happiness

I made an impulse decision yesterday. I’m going to blame rereading The Raven Cycle. Or maybe it was just that I looked out at the […]

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That Little Pinch of Salt

By NataliePosted on August 11, 2019
  • Happiness

“Playing is like that little pinch of salt in baguettes, it makes life tastier. “ Or so says Tom Dupain, father of my favorite Parisian […]

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Cry Without Apology

By NataliePosted on August 7, 2019
  • Happiness

I wonder when we learn to apologize for crying. Was it watching each other apologies or was it being told, more directly, that we should […]

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Connection Not Calories

By NataliePosted on July 31, 2019
  • Happiness

I do not want to be that girl who feels shame about my body. I’ve covered this before, right? But today I made a few […]

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