Stop Touching Me! Family Road Trip to Salt Lake City

Do the words “family road trip” scare you? It really doesn’t have to be scary. My family took a road trip in late June from California to Salt Lake City, Utah. My husband had a professional conference in Salt Lake City and it was the only opportunity for all of us to take a trip together this summer. We’ve driven this route before. Once when my son was only a year old. It’s easier now that the kids are mostly grown, but it still takes preparation and a good attitude. Getting ready for a family road trip with older kids Read More

17 Quotes About Reading to Inspire You

If you go back and look at this blog’s history, you’ll see that I post a list of great quotes every couple of months. I collect quotes that interest and inspire me. Reading quotes are a perfect fit for me. Why? Because I love to read. My love of reading came early in my life and it has never left me. Maybe you don’t consider yourself a reader. If that is the case, I’m sure you’ll find a quote for you here anyways. And if you are a reader, then these reading quotes are especially for you. I’ve written before Read More

9 Happiness Tips You Can Use Today

I recently finished reading The Little Book of Lykke: Secrets of the World’s Happiest People by Meik Wiking and wrote a review and recommendation of this great little book. You can read it here. I loved the book so much that I struggled to write a review that wasn’t way too long. There was so much information in the book’s 285 pages that I wanted to share that I ended up writing an essay instead of a blog post about it. What to do with too many words? That’s easy! Break them into two blog posts! So here is the second blog post Read More

Recommending: A Little Book About Happiness Research

I just finished reading The Little Book of Lykke: Secrets of the World’s Happiest People by Meik Wiking. I won’t hold you in suspense. It was a really great read. For those of us who don’t speak Danish, lykke means happiness and is pronounced loo-ka.  Wiking is the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute (yes, people actually research happiness and that alone makes me happy). Danes are known as some of the happiest people on the planet, so it should come as no surprise that the Happiness Research Institute is located in Copenhagen, Denmark.. This little book contains tons of happiness related Read More