So Where Have You Been blackgirlgrown?

Okay, so even though I’ve read the blog posts that say you should never explain an absence, I feel like I should. I owe it to my very dedicated readers who have been on this journey with me over the last two and a half years. What have I been doing? Working my butt off! [...]

Things All Happy People Know

The Black Doctor has a great list of 10 things happy people know.  It’s worth a complete read.  Here, I note some of my favorites: #1. Share Your Happy Thoughts: Let your children know how great it feels to spend the day with them. Brag to your spouse about the unexpected compliment your boss paid [...]

August 2010 Happiness Project: Have FUN!

Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project encourages us all to focus on FUN for the month of August. With all that we have going on in our lives, the economy, and the recent jobless numbers, it is sometimes difficult to focus on fun. The drudgery of the daily grind and trying to “get by” make it difficult [...]

A Word Before Heading Out to Happy Hour

Yes, ladies. We work hard and some of us play harder. We can match wits with men on nearly every level in the workplace, in the gym, and on the field. Except when it comes to drinking. Many of us have learned the hard way that you can’t drink like a man. For most of [...]

Be Happy, Its Contagious

WebMD Health News – Could happiness be contagious?  New research from Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Diego suggests that happiness is influenced not only by the people you know, but by the people they know.  The study showed that happiness spreads through social networks, sort of like a virus, meaning that [...]

Being Thrifty with Your Time

Katelyn Thomas, SimplyThrifty.com: Many times, people focus so much on being thrifty with tangible resources, like money or recyclables, that they forget to think about a resource that is just as valuable – their time. Time is a resource we can’t replace. Once a minute is gone, it is gone.  Read More.