August Happiness Challenge -- Day 19

Today's happiness -- A letter from Darius. He's the convict I correspond with through my church's prison penpal program. I hadn't heard from him in weeks, and I was worried. I've read that  few Illinois prisons have tested inmates for the corona virus, and I was afraid he'd become another victim of the pandemic.

He wrote a lonely, melancholy letter. But he's as healthy as he was in July. The whole point of this program is that he can take comfort in knowing someone out here cares about him. I realized when I saw that envelope today that I do.

PS But I don't care how lonely he says he is, I'm not going to visit him. He and I are never, ever going to be an episode of Love After Lock Up. ☺


Each day in August you are to post about something that makes *you* happy. Pretty simple. And, it doesn't even have to be every day if you don't want it to be. It's a great way to remind ourselves that there

August Happiness Challenge -- Day 18

Today's happiness -- Not so bad. Two things happened Tuesday that had me REALLY nervous with anticipation. The first had to do with the condo board elections, the second was a Zoom meeting at work.

Guess what. They both turned out to be nothingburgers.Yes, I'm finally learning something here, at this late stage in my life: I waste too much time worrying about things in advance, fretting over that which I have no control.

Each day in August you are to post about something that makes *you* happy. Pretty simple. And, it doesn't even have to be every day if you don't want it to be. It's a great way to remind ourselves that there