How Y'all Doing? Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

by Leslie Jordan

“Happiness is a choice. Happiness is a habit. And happiness is something you have to work hard at. It does not just happen.”

I think that fear keeps so many of us from being successful at things outside our realm of experience. We love to stay in our comfort zone, but the growth only comes when we wander outside of that zone.

The world is a better place for having Dolly Parton in it. And I, personally, want to emulate her. I want to live a life where no one can say a bad word about me. Because I have never heard a bad word about Dolly. Folks may or may not like me, but they certainly will not be able to denigrate me. Because I plan to live my life asking myself constantly, “Well, what would Dolly do?”

Most people think recovery is about quitting all the alcohol and substances. Well, that is the hard part. But recovery is really about learning to live, one day at a time, without the use of anything that affects us from the neck up. To be happy and content.

Honey, if embellishment were a sin, I would be sitting in a roaring fire with Beelzebub right now.