When Pharrell sings about clapping if you feel like a room without a roof, I just can’t go along. Roofs are serious business, even basic asphalt shingles, not to mention the architecturally […]
What Type of Roof Are You?
Transform Your Relationships: Dealing with Difficult People
Okay, yes, I’ve been told I’m too tolerant, too forgiving, and so open-minded my brains fall out. But if you have a Difficult Person (DP) in your life, my wide-open mind (and […]
Knives Out: A Love Story With Wicked Edges
It’s scary sometimes how you can be going along in your life thinking you’ve got everything all sewn up, and suddenly you don’t. I hit my sixties and felt I’d finally gotten […]
Wish Your Dog Were Better but Obedience Bores You?
If you’re like me, dog obedience training is like eating kale. You know it’s good for you, but it’s rough going down. If you have an energetic puppy, an easily-spooked rescue, a […]
Extrovert Time
Parties, gatherings, travel, theme park visits, celebrations, but most of all time spent face-to-face with those I love were all the things I longed for during the pandemic.
Thanksgiving
It seems almost impossible to be thankful when everything is falling apart around us. . . . Yet conventional wisdom tells us, “It’s not happy people who are grateful. It’s grateful people who are happy.” Interestingly, recent scientific research backs this up.
Looking for Hope
A review of ROBOTS WILL STEAL YOUR JOB BUT THAT’S OK: HOW TO SURVIVE THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE AND BE HAPPY I picked up this book because despite it being from 2012—ancient in […]
How Can We Get There?
I recently got back from vacation (see my last post!) and one of my friends, as friends will, asked how I was readjusting to being home. I said, “On vacation, every day […]
Ask a Siren: When did you first become aware of the possibility of happiness and how did that affect your work as an artist?
Today’s Ask a Siren question comes form a deep soul, and cracks at the very hearts of our being: “When did you first become aware of the possibility of happiness and how did that affect your work as an artist?”
Five Easy Ways to Fall in Love With Yourself and Find Happiness
I wrote this post a year ago for someone I love who was suffering from depression. Having suffered from it too, I asked myself to come up with the top five things that most […]
The Gloria Sirens 