Red's Wrap
Happiness. It's relative.
Tag: happiness
The End of Lament
I crossed over today. There’s no other way to say it. Like a dying person who sees the bright light, I’ve stopped the struggle, ended the resistance, faced the truth and found that I am fine with it. All at once and for no… Continue Reading “The End of Lament”
Finding Places to be Happy
I’m trying to remember what it means to be a kid at heart. I want it to mean to be free from worry. To be carefree. And I have memories of being carefree when I was a kid. Riding my blue bike down the… Continue Reading “Finding Places to be Happy”
Circumstance
It occurred to me, driving across town and then up along Lake Michigan where there were short whitecaps on very blue water, that I might possibly be happy. Are you happy without reservation? I searched that thought, flipping through my inventory of dissatisfaction and… Continue Reading “Circumstance”
The Fruited Plain
I’m in danger of being happy. I resist the foreignness of it, this possibility of happiness. There must be a rock I’ve failed to turn over. But no, all of the rocks have been lifted up and the earth beneath them studied hard. It… Continue Reading “The Fruited Plain”
Mama’s Baby Robot
My implant is live. I am now part of cochlear nation. It’s two weeks to the day since my cochlear implant surgery. The magnet inside my head just sitting there all lonely met its match today. When it did, and the audiologists activated the… Continue Reading “Mama’s Baby Robot”
Be Bright and Beautful
There were long patches of my life when there were no photos. When I was a single mom was one of those times. I had my daughter’s school pictures but there weren’t a lot of other pictures. A few. Her father had been the… Continue Reading “Be Bright and Beautful”
What’s Next is Beautiful
More and more, I want to bust out. Change things up. Be redder. It’s about ownership, admission, sitting still, standing up, wearing my skin like a second skin, buying smaller jeans, reaching across the table for what I want, not waiting to have a… Continue Reading “What’s Next is Beautiful”
Inside Scoop
The trick to being happy is knowing how to manage unhappiness. I see all the blog posts, the lists of the ten things happy people do everyday, the five things happy people do before they wake up, the seventy secrets to happiness. I don’t… Continue Reading “Inside Scoop”
No Waves
Lately I’ve taken to asking people if they’re happy. We’ll be having a pretty normal conversation and I’ll blurt out, “Are you happy?” I’m not sure why this has become the question du jour. Today I was having lunch with a friend and he… Continue Reading “No Waves”
Snow Door | wisconsinacademy.org
Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
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