I is for - I haven't a clue, I have no good ideas, I don't know what to post

Well, it looks like I hit my first wall in the 2016 A to Z Blogging Challenge. I've been racking* my brain since I decided to join the challenge, trying to think of topics for the difficult letters. Oh sure, there are plenty of great words that begin with I, but I don't have enough to say about any of them. Internet? Old news. Identity, Inner self, Inspiration, Introspection? I have absolutely no spiritual or philosophical bones in my body. Icebergs? Ice cream? My Irish and Italian heritage? That heritage by the way seems to have been lost on the next generation - the generation to which my son and my niece belong. I suppose that means our family has fully melted into the melting pot.

Nothing that starts with I interests me today.Which leaves me with no ideas. I don't know. I can't think of anything. I, I, I...I guess this post is all about me then. Or more accurately, it's all about I.


I expect to have pulled myself out of this when I get to other difficult (for me) letters. This A to Z Challenge is stretching me in good ways, but I'm giving myself the day off today with my I'm-stumped post.

*Yes, it's rack, not wrack.

H is for Happiness

If this post is published it means that so far I've made it through eight days of the 2016 Blogging from A to Z Challenge. Yay me!

Happiness. How do you define it? Is it an overall feeling? A day to day feeling? Is it about the big things or the little things? I believe the answer is all of the above, but I'm going to stick with the little things for this post.

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." ~ Robert Brault

So H is for Happiness, and 

• Happiness is the sound of pure joy in a child's laugh.
• Happiness is kissing the soft bottom of a baby's foot.
• Happiness is puppy breath.
• Happiness is a having a purring cat knead on you.
• Happiness is being with the people you love and the people who love you.
• Happiness is feeling the warm sun on your face.
• Happiness is the sound of ocean waves.
• Happiness is a cool drink of water on a hot day.
• Happiness is a hot drink on a cold day.
• Happiness is being curled up indoors with a good book while a thunderstorm rages outside.

There are so many things to complain about in today's world that complaining is much easier to do than finding things to be happy about. If you look for the good things you will find them. Big or little things; it doesn't matter. If you've been stressed out by negativity lately, why not take today to make your own Happiness is list?