practice 'Happiness Manifesto' periodically

Being inside while Sandy rages
Sweet Riot chocolate bar with cocoa nibs
Going to breakfast with one of my pals just before the storm closed in
Being able to work at home
The Internet
You, who are reading this. :)

1. I am with my family.
2. Everyone is healthy.
3. Everyone is happy.
4. I have the time and energy to help those who don’t have 1, 2, or 3.
5. Coffee and chocolate!

• last night’s “Modern Family.”
• the unexpected feeling of spring
• walking on the Upper West Side
• coffee
• “The Daily Show.”

I am grateful for:
Knowing enough HTML to help my husband
Seeing amazing theater for not much money
My dog-almost 12-and still rocking.
Snow finally melting.
Coffee.

I am grateful for:

1. The fact that my 11-year-old dog (!) is healthy enough to swim twice a week and flirt all the time.

2. Red sunflowers at Trader Joe’s.

3. Free wireless at Panera.

4. Sharing the latest episode of Modern Family with my husband.

5. My mom turning 79 in good health and great spirits.

1. My friends who have passed away, on this day of AIDS remembrance.

2. For activists everywhere, past and presence.

3. For science, for medicine.

4. For anyone who has ever told a hard truth.

5. For anyone who has really listened.

I am grateful for:

1. Rocco, the fawn-colored French bulldog puppy, who is the bouncy four-month-old suitor of my 10-year-old dog.

2. Having money and time to see “in the next room, or the vibrator play…”

3. Having money and time to buy plays and read them.

4. This odd spring/fall weather.

5. Meeting a woman who just moved to my town who has a tough (but trainable) adult rescue dog. I hoped I gave her good advice: don’t quit, take it slow, and be patient.

1. meeting an adorable girl dog named Sedaris who looked part corgi, part pit, and all adorable.

2. a compelling episode of CSI starring Tippi Hedren! (The Birds) that got me through a treadmill session.

3. Dark chocolate Reese’s peanut butter cups.

4. Discovering that Lady Gaga has a sense of humor…and so, again, does Madonna.

5. Just contemplating buying my dog a lobster costume for Halloween.

But grateful for:

1. The fall air
2. The free coffee I got yesterday
3. How I Met Your Mother
4. My dog’s stomach, so pettable
5. Affirmation cards….

I am grateful for:

1. Blimpie’s tuna with sharp provolone
2. My kind husband, who walked the dog because I felt crummy
3. My kind husband, who got me lunch and dinner because I felt crummy
4. Listening to Speech Debelle
5. Watching BONES, with Stephen Fry playing the shrink