Author: happyologist

From 2019 Before we left to run errands today, I noticed the snow was sticky. Perfect for snowballs.  I told my daughter she better be prepared when we got home. She giggled. After we got home, and parked the car at the bottom of the solid ice driveway,  we brought groceries inside. My daughter’s friend…

From 2018 ME  (searching in my daughter’s dresser, after listening to her complain for half an hour that she has no clean socks): “Oh look!  Clean socks! Ooo! More! Imagine that! Look at them all!”

 (I pick up every sock in the drawer and drop them on the floor dramatically, as my daughter laughs.)
 ME: …

From 2018

Last week, on one of the hottest days of the summer, I was hiking on a trail and something mystical happened. I’d hiked down a steep ridge into a valley and there was a beautiful creek flowing through a pine forest. There was a flat, clear place to sit on the creek bank, covered…

From 2020 Wow, there are some miserable mean people in this world. But sometimes they unintentionally provide a fun bit of entertainment for us. Like what just happened to me. I don’t know what’s going on but more and more lately, when people behave horribly I just feel amused. I’m starting to see them all…

I was 28, working in television, living in Manhattan. It was a Friday evening after a high-pressure 60-hour week, when I drove down to visit my mother for the weekend. It was pouring rain, traffic was insane and it took me 5 hours of white-knuckle driving. The whole time I was driving, I was having…

Several years ago, I discovered details about one of my ex husband’s affairs and stuff he secretly spent (a lot of) money on during our marriage and separation (meanwhile crying poverty in court and…well…basically our entire marriage except the love-bombing phase when he pretended to be rich).  I knew about his other affairs during the…