The Happiness Project

by Gretchen Rubin

Happy people generally are more forgiving, helpful, and charitable, have better self-control, and are more tolerant of frustration. (pg. 54)

Eat Pray Love

by Elizabeth Gilbert


Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. (page 260)

Keeping the Moon

by Sarah Dessen

I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly of be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way. (pg. 361)

Sea Glass

I have always had a love for sea glass. Living as close as I do to the beach, I try to go as often as I can to hunt for it. Over the years I have collected a lot of brown, green and white. These here are the few that I have collected that are blue, aqua, teal, pink and purple.

Pink Sky Morning

The sky was pink this morning. It even made the snow pink.

More Jellyfish

We were without power for a few days. Due to a big rain and wind storm. The winds got up to 50 plus miles per hour. My dad had brought a generator over to us that use to be my grandfathers. Lucky for us we had it! The generator let use keep our furnace going so the house would be warm and the pipes would not freeze. We had no running water but at least we were warm. I worked on my Jellyfish because there was nothing else to do. They are growing in numbers; six more were created.

Kitties holding paws

My kitties, Sassafras and Seabass, enjoying holding paws.