(Written Wednesday, March 20, 2019)

Today I shunned technology (until now) and it was WONDERFUL!

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(Written Tuesday, March 19, 2019)

“The more we perform a particular action, the more connections form between the corresponding neurons [in our brain]. That means that we have the power to creat new habits and then reap the benefits, whether we’re 22 or 72.”

(Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage, p. 149-150)

Today I find myself a bit surprised to be here, 60 days later. Initially, I wasn’t expecting to carry on past the initial 30 days, (and I hope you’re not bored) but here we are. I’m trying to change a default that’s well engrained.

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(Written Monday, March 18, 2019)

A couple of weeks ago I said to a friend, “It wouldn’t surprise me if there were a wedding coming up for us in the near future.”

I was right. Let me tell you about..

(Written Sunday March 17, 2019)

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
I felt I should add a touch of green, even though you won’t read this until well after the last of the 4-leaf clovers have wilted!

Since it was St. Paddy’s, we finished off the day in style, with home-made shamrock shakes. Never heard of them? Back home, McDonald’s came out with them for a limited time each March. Here, however… never heard of ’em! So it’s really more about carrying on a tradition from back home and gives us a treat that we look forward to each March.

That’s already a GoodThing but I’m not counting it among…

(Written Saturday March 16, 2019)

I’ve never seen as many flowers adorning a gravestone as I did this morning… it was truly breathtaking. I don’t know who the person was, or what they did but one thing’s for sure… they were well-loved.

We were not at the cemetery for their interment, but for one on a much smaller scale. That’s where I’ll begin with …

(Written Friday, March 15, 2019)

I finally got my act together on a project that began last year and has been sitting dormant for several months.

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(Written Thursday, March 14, 2019)

Today we got to share lunch with a bit of Châtellerault history.

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(Written Wednesday, March 13, 2019)

Today was like one big long sigh of relief.

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(Written Tuesday, March 12, 2019)

It was back to Angers for an afternoon of teaching today. I’m more and more convinced that young people (students anyway) have a very difficult time resisting “the call of the smartphone”… not because they’re always taking calls… but because whether it’s for chatting or social media, the phone is always calling out to them. However, since these posts are meant to be positive, let me move quickly on to…

(Written Monday, March 11, 2019)

On one hand, it was a normal Monday (the kids were in school and I was in Angers). On the other, it was a special day because it was Liz’s birthday. On still another hand… it was an odd, non-social-media-spectacular-type day in that we didn’t do anything major to celebrate – no restaurant, no fancy, French-patisserie cake.

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