Oh Happy Day

President Barack Obama.  It has a nice ring to it — and I’m so glad we have at least 4 years to say it.
In my part of the world, at least, no one got any work done.  I have some friends who made the trip to DC to be part of the (freezing cold) crowd [...]

Feeling Happy and Productive

Yesterday I threw out years worth of WW weekly program booklets.  They’ve been collecting in a little basket since I joined in 2002 and I realized that I never went back to actually look at them.  While there is valuable info in the material, it’s not valuable if I don’t look at it.  Now it’s [...]

Feeling Good about My Week

I tried the innovative step of staying on my food plan for the last seven days and lost a pound.  But really, I didn’t care what the scale said.  What mattered to me is that I just did it this week, follwing the plan without obsessing about food (seeing, tasting, eating, smelling, tracking, or regretting [...]

Loose on Newbury Street

Today was wonderful. Unlike the last two weekends, I wasn’t flying hither and yon or sitting in a conference session for work. I hadn’t realized just how much I needed the downtime of doing routine things and enjoying a pretty day.
Newbury Street in Boston is a shopping mecca for people with pots of [...]