This isn’t my idea — I saw it on Pinterest. In 2015, I tried to write down something that happened that made me happy every day, along with the date, and put it in a jar. On New Year’s Eve, Mr. Donovan and I read through them all. I didn’t actually do it every day. I wrote down maybe 50
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In a great moment in the finale of the TV show The Office, the character Andy realized that a job he viewed as a way station rather than a destination is one that he will miss terribly. In the past week, friends of mine have kids who are going to grade school for the first time, and off to college the
When I was finishing up my MFA in Creative Writing, I had no job prospects. My experience impressed no one. Besides being an instructor at the university, I had been a cocktail waitress, a breakfast waitress at a place called The Eggery that was perpetually out of eggs, an artists’ model, a retail worker, and a person who pestered shoppers to take surveys
Welcome to your Hall of Trophies. It must have been years since you’ve visited, and as you can imagine, your collection has grown quite a bit. Yes, we keep the lights dim, the climate carefully controlled. Each award is a valuable work of art–some made of 22K gold, a few studded with rare gems. My favorite ones, in the back, are