The Happy Woman Store

Our Product of the Moment is The Courage Code, a book coauthored by two Traverse City women!

I’ve had the great pleasure of meeting Megan Raphael, one of the authors, in person (that’s us in the picture above). She’s smart, funny, and a great writer. I promise that you will enjoy this book! All of the books that we have in stock are signed by her. Read more about it right here.

Here’s a picture of Megan and her beautiful daughter at The Happy Woman store!

No, your eyes are not deceiving you. This is the mermaid, the one who hadn’t a speck of snow on her last week. We are under siege up here! Somebody save us from all of this snow!

When we moved to Traverse City, we started to shop at a nice little organic food coop called Oryana Natural Foods. It was there that I stumbled upon Imagine Foods’ Chicken Stock. Can I just say ‘love at first opening of the box’? First of all, it smells like chicken (dare I say Imagine that?) and it looks like stock that you might have made yourself (does anybody really do that?) and it makes everything that you add it to taste better. Check it out!

So, last Sunday, my husband and I went for a walk, which turned out to be serendipitous for two reasons: 1) it started out cloudy & cold & turned into sunny & warm (always a happy event) & 2) we found this in a parking lot:

No, it’s not an asteroid on acid, it’s a superball. Remember them? Those little round objects that bounce a mile when you throw them against the ground? Finding the superball itself isn’t the reason for writing this. The reason is this: when I spotted the superball in the parking lot, I picked it up and showed it to my husband. And when I did, there appeared on his face, a look that I’m sure he used a lot when he was about 9 years old. Pure, unADULTerated joy. I wish I’d had a camera with me to record it, because it was really something worth seeing again.

It made me think about how being silly just goes by the way side when we ‘grow up’. After I found the superball, we acted like semi-idiotic adults and bounced it back and forth to each other for awhile. And, you know what? It was freeing and fun.