Not everything in life arrives tied up neatly with a pretty little bow.

Some of it is messy.
Some of it is funny.
Some of it makes absolutely no damn sense until much later.

Unpolished Shifts began here at Home of Misfits as a place for those stories, observations, and perspective shifts from real life.

Those stories now continue as Notes from the Wild at the Happiness Matters Foundation — because apparently the wild needed a bigger backyard.

You’ll always find the latest pieces here.

Read what catches your eye. Follow the rabbit hole. Take what speaks to you.

And when you're ready for more, go ahead. Click it.