Author Archives: annamfarley

Eighteen years ago, back in December 2001, I had my last Christmas in my hometown in Canada. We didn\’t know yet then that it was our last, and we were all engaged in fairly normal activities. My mom was working, my siblings were attending high school or junior high, and I was reaching the endContinue reading “Christmas Reflections – Part 2”

It\’s the most wonderful time of the year! I was thinking about my Christmas memories, some of which are now amusing, some sad, some heartwarming, and I realized for the millionth time how blessed I have been. I grew up poor. How poor, I probably will never really have any idea. Just today I wasContinue reading “Christmas Reflections – Part 1”

I had the pleasure of talking recently to someone who was sharing with me her immediate plans of changing jobs. She is leaving what she currently does in order to go back to being a hair stylist on her own. I am always intrigued and celebrate people making bold changes in their life – especiallyContinue reading “Be a Blessing Where You Are”

Social media and \”infotainment\” news has been lit up recently with the now much maligned recent Peloton television commercial, where a husband buys his wife a Peloton bike for a Christmas gift. In the commercial, the wife seems shocked but not unhappy to receive the bike, and in the short clip is seen chronicling herContinue reading “The Peloton Controversy”

Love yourself. People say this all of the time. \”You gotta love yourself\” or \”make a point to love yourself.\” To be honest, I have always struggled with this concept. These comments are usually made in some context where it comes across as almost defeatist. Like, \”this is who I am and that\’s just tooContinue reading “Loving Yourself”

I remember when I first discovered Nathan Pyle\’s Strange Planet comic on Instagram earlier this year. The humorous encounters within the short comics are great observations about life. These beings, as Pyle calls them, experience life in a way that when we observe it we see it as funny, ridiculous, silly and sweet. These beings indeedContinue reading “Review: Strange Planet – Nathan W. Pyle”

It sounds funny to write about hair, long or short, it is just hair. But people are funny about hair, especially women – but especially men! I have cried over one bad hair cut. I was eight years old, and my mom had left (I stop short here of saying the word abandoned) my sisterContinue reading “Short Hair, Don\'t Care?”

We are approaching the time of year when people begin making resolutions. I love resolutions! I am goal driven. I love a good list of things to achieve and then start checking them off. Big and small (this is partly why I started using DayZeroProject several years ago!). I make New Year\’s Resolutions but IContinue reading “Action, Motivation and Discipline”

It is Black Friday, no longer the beginning of the wild craze of the shopping season because the sales started weeks ago, but rather the pinnacle or culmination of all American holiday season commercialization. We are fat off turkey, feeling generous and opening our wallets both in stores and online. There is no doubt thatContinue reading “Holiday Commercialization, Gift Giving and Shopping Addictions”

I love the holidays. From about mid November until New Year\’s Eve I am as festive as it gets. I have decorations up, music playing, my Christmas t-shirts are washed and my Christmas headgear is ready to go. I am done my Christmas shopping every year before Thanksgiving, I am just so excited to pounceContinue reading “Grief, Loss and the Holidays”