Describe What Happiness Means to You

This is a big question for a simple blog prompt, but I am going to accept this challenge. Webster’s definition of happiness is: 1) a: a state of well-being and contentment: joy; b: a pleasurable or satisfying experience. 2) Felicity, aptness// a striking happiness of expression 3) obsolete: good fortune: prosperity// “All happiness bechance to …

2020 intention: to write more on the blog.

It's been quite some time since I wrote publicly on the ol' blog. Are blogs even a thing anymore? Either way, last year (2019), I set some intentions to write outside of my usual scheduled writing for work. AAaaand I noticed that this intention did not necessarily come to fruition in the way I expected. …

Breaking up with my 30-year relationship

This coming Thursday will mark my two-month Keto-versary. I started on the ketogenic "diet" on May 6 and have, so far, lost approximately 18 pounds. When I first heard about this keto business, it was last year, and my boyfriend had told me the benefits of eating and living keto. His mother, an incredibly inspiring …

Piracy

O, dear brother, who makes his sorrows hidden from plain view, but keeps them lit like matches between his fingers The anger seeps through each unrevealed step confronting each lie you so plainly hide from her Someday she will no longer amuse you and your attempts at fellowship. She will see the bleeding anger in …

The Great Rural Social Experiment: Part 3

It has been seven weeks and two days since I decided to pierce my septum. It's certainly something to get used to. You become much more aware of your boogers, and your ability to blow your nose, and I don't think I've ever gone through as many q-tips in my life as I had in …

The Great Rural Social Experiment: Part 2

It has been officially one week since I have had a sharp piece of metal shoved through my septum. And let me tell you, that was the highlight of the week. When I returned to work last Monday with metal dangling out of my nose like a punk-rock booger, I was greeted by my employers …

The Great Rural Social Experiment: Part 1

I have just returned back to my little hometown after spending a weekend in the "big city" of Minneapolis at the Villain Arts Minneapolis Tattoo Convention. Last year, my boyfriend and I went, and I got a tattoo of a pretty snowflake on my shoulder. When I returned home to the small, conservative, religious town, …

Rethinking Resolutions

The good ol’ New Years resolution. You set yourself up with a lofty goal and by the end of the year, you’re kicking yourself in the rear for not achieving that goal. At least that’s how it seems to go for me. Lose weight, quit smoking, less caffeine, no more social media, no sugar, stop …

Musings for the Christmas season 2018

As seen in the Faribault County Register by Katie Mullaly Every year, I watch “A Christmas Carol.” It is absolutely a requirement of the yuletide season in my eyes. My favorite version, as of late, happens to be the 2009 animated version starring Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge, and Gary Oldman as Bob Cratchet. (And, …

Musings from Christmases Past

2015 (as published in the Faribault County Register) I haven’t lived in Blue Earth around Christmas time in over five years. Some things have changed, but some things haven’t, in a way. Growing up as a little Mullaly, I remember going to midnight mass (yes, at midnight) in Guckeen at the Catholic church. Before we …