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The Happy Bishop
The Happy Bishop, a new website by Laurie Bishop!
I have created a new website called The Happy Bishop where I will be selling “How To” eBooks aimed at making your life a little easier and hopefully happier.
Please check it out here!
And, while you are there, check out my new eBook, How to Survive the ICU Experience. It’s a book to help strengthen those sitting by the bedside of a loved one.
It’s inspirational!
Please give it a read!
I’d love…
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The idea of time consumes my thoughts. I recently started working out at Orange Theory Fitness. It’s a gym that specializes in interval training. Each class has a treadmill, row, and free weights …
About Time
The idea of time consumes my thoughts.
I recently started working out at Orange Theory Fitness. It’s a gym that specializes in interval training. Each class has a treadmill, row, and free weights section. It fascinates me how 30 seconds on the treadmill at a sprint can seem like an eternity.
Yet before class, I look at the time, and I’ve got 15 minutes until I need to be in the car.
I get my…
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Then I would lie awake, staring at the ceiling thinking, “There’s no way I can stay silent for three hours – forget about three days…maybe my head will explode with thoughts…maybe I’ll sponta…
A trip to an ashram in the mountains of North Carolina brought me back to the simplistic joys of my childhood by doing one thing – remaining silent. Sit with me for a while, and I’ll tell you how meditation and sitting in silence helped me calm my mind down.
STOP TALKING! Silencio!
Then I would lie awake, staring at the ceiling thinking, “There’s no way I can stay silent for three hours – forget about three days…maybe my head will explode with thoughts…maybe I’ll sponta…
Source: STOP TALKING! Silencio!
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Then I would lie awake, staring at the ceiling thinking, “There’s no way I can stay silent for three hours – forget about three days…maybe my head will explode with thoughts…maybe I’ll sponta…
Then I would lie awake, staring at the ceiling thinking, “There’s no way I can stay silent for three hours – forget about three days…maybe my head will explode with thoughts…maybe I’ll sponta…
STOP TALKING! Silencio!
Have you ever been to the Sistine Chapel in Rome? I went a few years back. If you missed it, click here to read about my trip to the Vatican.
I remember how crowded it was. As we were herded into the Sistine Chapel like cattle, people with no clear personal boundaries craned their necks to look at the ceiling. The crowd murmured and continually bumped into one another while every few minutes a…
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Finding Happy
As we sat there, trying to hide our insecurities while pleasantly working with the instructor, a storm began. The wind started to howl; the two doors began to rattle, and the lights went out.
Source: Finding Happy
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Finding Happy
Spending last summer getting in over my head gave me an extra dose of confidence. A friend of mine suggested Byron and I take a Happiness course at The Art of Living. So, as I had done in the past, I got on my board and paddled toward adventure, only this time I was in my SUV driving up a mountain in Boone, NC.
It wasn’t the first time we had been to The Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, NC.…
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The Manatee Meeting
After paddle boarding beside a group of playful dolphins and a friendly manatee, and witnessing a giant sea turtlecoming to shore to lay eggs, I figured not much else could happen on our vacation. Several days later, my husband Byron, my two teenage daughters, and I climbed aboard a boat filled with my nieces, nephews, sister Becky and her husband, Matt. Rounding out the crew were Jared and…
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Mama Turtle
After paddling with a group of dolphins (You haven’t read about that yet? Click here, and come right back!), and paddling in deep water with a manatee (Oh, come on! You haven’t read that one either? Well, go on and click here. We’ll wait while you catch up.), we had just witnessed a giant sea turtle coming to land to lay her eggs. And, we realized that we had accidentally scared her. We had seen…
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Getting in Over My Head
Getting in Over My Head
At the end of my last blog, two seemingly intoxicated men had hollered “Manatee” at me, and I was paddling over to where they were pointing…(Click on the ocean if you haven’t read it yet, but come right back.)
Then I saw him: an enormous manatee.
By then, the girl who had talked to me earlier was paddling by my side.
We both saw the manatee’s head when he came up for air.
“Wow, that’s a big…
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SUP Boarding on the Gulf
SUP Boarding on the Gulf
Too often, I go through life holding my breath with my shoulders up to my ears worrying about everything all at once. Summertime has always been a time for me to catch my breath and experience the goodness life has to offer, like dragonflies, lightning bugs, ice cream cones, dolphins and all the magic that learning to relax again brings.
For Mother’s Day, my husband Byron gave me two stand up…
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Relics, Reverence and Ruins: Day Six of Italy
Relics, Reverence and Ruins: Day Six of Italy
Monastery grounds
During day six of Italy, we found ourselves staring at the finger of St. Thomas the Apostle, the surprised participants in a wedding, praying at the tomb of a little girl from the 1930’s soon to be a Saint, riding 13 miles through Rome on a bicycle, and in constant amazement at every turn.
The hotel provided free breakfast in the dining hall, so we took advantage of that. The…
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The Art of Happy
The Art of Happy
There are only a few things in life that we absolutely have to do, and one of those things is to breathe.
Face it: we have to breathe.
To be honest, I’m not that great at it.
I constantly find myself holding my breath, especially while I’m driving or getting therapy on my neck from the whiplash that still lingers after last summer’s car accident.
When my husband Byron’s 50th birthday neared, I…
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Had a Black Magic Beetle
Life can change in the blink of an eye, and 10 days ago I was reminded of this.
My car is a black convertible Volkswagen Beetle. I bought the car largely for two reasons:
I was in my 40’s and had never owned a convertible
One of my favorite songs is “Black Magic Woman,” by Santana.
Now you may follow the logic behind the first reason: I was “practicing” for my mid-life crisis. But how does the…
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