Write 31 Days

Happiness {8}:  Survival of the Fittest Gardening

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Participants in “Write 31 Days” pledge to write for 30 minutes on a single topic every day in October.  My topic?  Happiness.     Today I took the oldest kids to do some fun fall things. They rode horses.   Painted pumpkins.   Took a train ride around the lake. (Why yes, that “train” is a lawnmower and […]

Happiness {6/7}:  Like a Moody Teenager

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Participants in “Write 31 Days” pledge to write for 30 minutes on a single topic every day in October.  My topic?  Happiness.   One of the inspirations for choosing to think about happiness this month was the audiobook I’m in the middle of listening to. The Happiness Project On her website, Gretchen Rubin has posted a discussion guide including the […]

Happiness {5}: A Beautiful Death

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  Participants in “Write 31 Days” pledge to write for 30 minutes on a single topic every day in October.  My topic?  Happiness. Is it October 31st yet? It’s only the 5th? Sigh.  I think this whole writing for 31 days thing might have been a mistake.  Maybe not the writing part, but the happiness part. […]

Happiness {4}: Peanuts Gang Style

  Participants in “Write 31 Days” pledge to write for 30 minutes on a single topic every day in October.  My topic?  Happiness.   I was Lucy in our high school’s theater production of You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown.  It.  Was. Awesome. I wasn’t awesome.  It was awesome.  Playing a stubborn, impatient, bossy older sister? […]

Happiness {3}: The Pursuit

Participants in “Write 31 Days” pledge to write for 30 minutes on a single topic every day in October.  My topic?  Happiness. If I had to choose a theme for yesterday, it would be “choosing happiness when life is hard.” But now I’m all in a muddle.  What’s the difference between happiness and joy?  Is it possible […]

Happiness {2}: In a Cave

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  Participants in “Write 31 Days” pledge to write for 30 minutes on a single topic every day in October.  Yesterday I chose a topic— Happiness.  Now I have to explore it.  At the time it seemed like a great idea.  Now it seems more like a joke. Cee’s hip started hurting a little.  This morning. […]

Happiness {1}: The Evolution of an Idea

The Evolution of an Idea Have you heard of  “Write 31 Days?”  The point is to write.  For 31 days.  Seriously, that seems to be it. I looked all over the website for prompts.  Ideas.  Questions.  Suggestions. It all seems pretty open-ended.  Each writer is supposed to choose his or her own topic and stick with it […]