Category Archives: Holiday Happiness

Resources to Boost Your Mood

Resources to Boost Your Mood At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I’ve been in a generally good mood ever since.  ~ Marilyn vos Savant The holidays are a very stressful time … Continue reading

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Twelve Days of Christmas Happiness: Sixth Day

Twelve Days of Christmas Happiness: Sixth Day Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.  ~Hosea Ballou Hello my friends, as we push through the holiday season and in our continuing attempts to make this … Continue reading

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Twelve Days of Christmas Happiness: Fifth Day

Twelve Days of Christmas Happiness: Fifth Day Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.                                   ~ Norman Bradburn Hello my friends, as we push … Continue reading

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Twelve Days of Christmas Happiness: Fourth Day

Twelve Days of Christmas Happiness: Fourth Day Hello my friends, as we push through the holiday season and in our continuing attempts to make this a happy time for all of us today we start the 12 days of Christmas, … Continue reading

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Twelve Days of Christmas Happiness: Third Day

Twelve Days of Christmas Happiness: Third Day Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.  ~William Feather Hello my friends, as we push through the holiday … Continue reading

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Twelve Days of Christmas: Second Day

Twelve Days of Christmas: Second Day I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse.  I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.  ~J.D. Salinger Hello my friends, as we push through the holiday season and in our continuing attempts … Continue reading

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Twelve Days to Christmas: First Day

Twelve Days to Christmas: First Day Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.  ~Marcel Proust Hello my friends, as we push through the holiday season and in … Continue reading

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Holiday Happiness: Overcoming Holiday Depression

Holiday Happiness: Overcoming Holiday Depression The holidays stress people out so much. I suggest you keep it simple and try to have as much fun as you can. ~ Giada De Laurentiis Each year around this time I start a … Continue reading

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The Holidays are Coming Stay Positive

The Holidays are Coming Stay Positive Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, ‘is it going to be wonderful enough?,’ it never will be.                       ~ Pepper Schwartz The holidays are coming, well, in fact, they are … Continue reading

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My Annual Thanksgiving Day Hike

My Annual Thanksgiving Day Hike After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value. – G.M. Trevelyan Each year for Thanksgiving I do a hike in the morning, turkey in the afternoon.  My Thanksgiving tradition includes three of my … Continue reading

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