Reality TV Stimulates Me

In Creating Happiness by Barbara Jacoby

Let’s qualify that title a bit.  I am not referring to those “reality” programs that have contestants eating bugs or doing stupid tricks and I am not naïve enough to believe that editing is not the single biggest component in the final product that we see in each weekly episode.  But, I have a genuine fascination with the working of …

What Is A Tinidog?

In Creating Happiness by Barbara Jacoby

I am very intrigued by the combinations of foods or foods and drinks that people have as their favorites. For instance, one of my very favorites is a corn dog along with a gin martini. This combination has come to be known as a “tinidog” in our house. And although I do not have names for all of my personal …

What I Want

In Creating Happiness by Barbara Jacoby

As I wrote last week, I have spent the last couple of weeks reflecting upon my life and one question had come to my mind – if I could have any ONE thing to come into my life at this moment, what would it be?  At the same time, I had asked you to answer the same question before I …

What Do You Want?

In Creating Happiness by Barbara Jacoby

I have spent the last couple of days reflecting upon my life and one question has come to my mind – if I could have any ONE thing to come into my life at this moment, what would it be? However, I have decided that I would like to make this week’s blog about YOU!  I would really appreciate it if …

The 4th of July – Independence Day

In Creating Happiness by Barbara Jacoby

As we celebrate this wonderful holiday that marks our freedom and independence as a country, I couldn’t help but reflect on the personal freedoms that we have as individuals living here. I am so grateful for the rights that I am guaranteed and which I so often take for granted. And I am so fortunate to have the freedom of …

Michael Jackson – Memorial Pictures / Video

In Creating Happiness by Barbara Jacoby

It’s not like me to show up at gatherings such as the memorial outside of the Michael Jackson’s family home. But because of the magnitude of the tribute being shown there, and the fact that I don’t live that far from their home, I thought I would share my personal experiences from the site. I hope that this helps to …

The Judgment of Michael Jackson

In Creating Happiness by Barbara Jacoby

With the passing of Michael Jackson yesterday, I, along with just about everyone else I know, turned on the television to watch the coverage. Since new information was rather scarce in the first couple of hours of this breaking story, the first thing that I saw on most stations was the footage from his trial when charges of child molestation …

The Father / Daughter Relationship

In Creating Happiness by Barbara Jacoby

The most important relationship that any girl has with a parent is the one with her father.   As today is Father’s Day, I felt that it was only fitting to discuss the relationship that I had with my own father that formulated the person that I am today. First of all, I would like to make it perfectly clear that …

The David Letterman/Sarah Palin Controversy

In Creating Happiness by Barbara Jacoby

I normally do not include in my blogs the names of specific individuals but rather I try to write about general issues.  This week, I am making an exception.  I was so angered by the comment that David Letterman included in his monologue about Sarah Palin’s daughter that I just can’t sit back and let it go. For those of …

Happy Anniversary

In Creating Happiness by Barbara Jacoby

Today Kirk and I celebrate our 13th wedding anniversary.  It would have also been my parents’ 68th anniversary if they were still alive.  As I told Kirk at the time, I wanted to get married on that date because if our marriage was half as successful as theirs was, I would really be very happy.  Well, all I can say …