Wednesday, April 29, 2026

What made you brought you joy this week

What made you brought you joy this week 

  • Time with Peter, getting condo tidied together, discussing history 
  • Reading in backyard with wine & cheese at sunset 
  • Getting my clothes closet tidied up
  • Getting Peter’s room tidied up 
  • Getting beneficiaries fixed up
  • Listening to Kate Bowler podcast 



Happiness vs joy

happiness vs joy



Monday, April 27, 2026

What brought me joy today

What brought me joy today 

  • Finally rearranging my office after 5 months (and a whole tax season). Much work to do, much to unpack but at least the pieces are in place 
  • Getting a game plan for revocable trust -an again, much to do! But all good. 
  • Sunset time with Sean, Luna, cheese, a lemon poppyseed muffin, and limoncello cream
  • Journaling 10 images 
  • Finding 3 more pairs of scissors, 2 pieces of art to frame, and my backup prescription glasses while unpacking journals 
  • Walking the dog with Sean at 7 am on a still morning 
  • Getting my work schedule organized and communicated to the bosses and entered into my calendar 


Saturday, April 25, 2026

What brought me joy today

What brought me joy today 

  • Reading… about joy in fact!
  • Hanging out with Sean and Peter and briefly Nora
  • Texas sheetcake
  • Lemon drop martini
  • Our van
  • My cat
  • Peter reading to me something he found delightful 
  • Sunset and fresh air 


Thursday, April 23, 2026

What brought me joy today

What brought me joy today: 

  1. Exploring books
  2. Being around book people
  3. Being amused by people’s opinions on books
  4. A good video appointment with my cardiologist who has seemed uncaring and clinical in past, and somehow I felt more connected with him and confident in his care, and hopeful
  5. My cat asking for love and also being cat-like in her refusal to accept love
  6. Half a banana from Sean 
  7. Appreciating the quality of Cadbury chocolate vs the cheap stuff 
  8. Rhinoceros stickers — the sheer variety of them, and letting people choose them for their Book Crawl passports 
  9. A book about joy inspiring me to write down my joys lately because apparently I spend a lot of time being grateful and appreciating whimsy than most people so I should document it
  10. Doing exercises in front of my little gold-framed Rembrandt postcard in the bathroom 
  11. Tidying my 50-year plus stuffed animals and telling Sean I’ve manifested space for him to go to Costco for a TV.  

Make fabric envelopes, houses

fabric envelopes

Second tutorial



Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Things I did today instead of Doom Scrolling

Things I did today instead of Doom Scrolling 

  1. Talked blinds and shades 
  2. Tidied the house
  3. Repaired a 17 year old red penguin 
  4. Signed up for a library class
  5. Met a bunch of ladies and drank wine
  6. Watched Survivor 50 

Small Joys Project

Back in January 2023, I came across a British woman on Twitter who had written out 365 small joys on pieces of paper and put them in a jar, ...