Peel Back March 🍀

Sticker journal flip through, plus what I read & clicked on this month ✷

Apr 01, 2026

Hi, welcome to Nancy’s Happy Pages– a cozy, fun corner of the internet full of stickers, where I note the ordinary glimmers of my life in hopes of inspiring you to pause, notice, and embrace your own. 🍀 100% made by a human.

March was good to us. 🙌 I finally knocked out home projects that had lived rent-free in my head for years– a foyer glow-up, a full garden overhaul– and this was the month I got my groove back. 💃 Everything I’ve been doing for my health over the last few years finally clicked. That’s not a small thing. That’s monumental.

The whole month felt like a big celebration: my daughter officially joined the teenager club (bittersweet, mindboggling, and how is this my life?!). I wrapped up my second journey through TAW. And I discovered my new favorite bug?!

I’m just... so grateful. 🌷 I know the world feels heavy and scary right now, and I’m holding that too. But I want to unapologetically celebrate this for myself because I cannot remember the last time I had a month this good.

As for these spreads, I let myself play with my stickers and wild abandon! They’re chaotic good. 🌀

“Flip Through” My 2026 Sticker Journal

I’ve officially reached the point in the year where, if I have a few spare minutes, I will leisurely flip through the weeklies of my sticker journal and admire the visual chaos of it all. I thought you might like the experience as well?

Reading Report 📚

Here’s everything I read in March!

Click through the links if you want to learn more about each book’s plot and/ or to support my work and an indie bookstore of your choice at no extra cost to you!

“Anne of Green Gables” ★★★★★
- Anne Shirley is whimsical and fiercely talkative in the best way, and Prince Edward Island is practically its own character. Underneath all the charming antics is a genuinely emotional story about finding where you belong. That’s what makes it timeless.
“Famous” ★★★★☆
- Read the whole thing in one sitting, which tells you everything you need to know. 😎 It’s a dark, fast-paced novella about a celebrity impersonator who gets dangerously obsessed with his lookalike and the twists that ensue.
“Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again” ★★★★☆
- I expected the usual “delete your apps and touch grass” advice, but Hari goes much deeper, arguing that our attention crisis is systemic, rooted in pollution, diet, childcare, and the deliberate architecture of our tech. It wants a revolution, and I highly recommend checking it out.
“In Five Years” ★★★★☆
- This is the rare romance that will surprise you. It follows a high-powered lawyer who wakes up five years in the future, and spends the rest of the book trying to make sense of what she saw. It’s also a story about friendship and grief, and it might gut you.
“The Correspondent” ★★★★★
- Everyone told me it’d be excellent, and everyone was right. This epistolary novel follows a witty, sharp, 72-year-old gradually losing her sight, and reading it feels like doing detective work on a beautifully complicated life well-lived. All the feels, as promised.
“My Enneagram: A Visual Guide to Find Your Personality Type, Stress Less, & Live Your Dreams” – Unrated, but lovely!
- The illustrations feel approachable, and the journal prompts genuinely make you want to pick up a pen. It’s been a few years since I revisited my enneagram, and this was a gentle, aesthetically pleasing way back in. When I finished it, my thirteen-year-old started working through it too! ✨ It’d be a great gift for any teens in your life.
“Something in the Water” ★★★★☆
- This is a psychological thriller about a couple who find a bag of cash on their honeymoon and watch their lives unravel from there. 👀 It has that cinematic “one more chapter” quality that also makes you wonder what you’d do in similar circumstances.
“And Then? And Then? What Else?” ★★★☆☆
- Lemony Snicket’s memoir-slash-writer’s-manifesto is as eccentric and non-linear as you’d expect. It’s like a long, rambling conversation with a brilliant, artsy, odd friend. Funny, moving, even if it doesn’t quite cohere into something you could summarize at brunch.
“Automatic Noodle” ★★★☆☆
- The premise: sentient abandoned robots opening a hand-pulled noodle shop in post-war San Francisco. It’s cozy but pointed, with themes around segregation and identity wrapped in mouthwatering food descriptions. What kept pulling at me, though, was the ethics of it being actually about robots rather than humans in metaphor, a distinction that makes it more interesting, not less.
“And Now, Back to You” ★★★☆☆
- A grumpy-meets-sunshine romance between two rival meteorologists trapped together in a historic blizzard with sparkly banter and a family caretaking subplot that gives it heart beneath the rom-com surface.

Sticky Notes 📝

Here are some links I thought you might like!

For your analog bag: Sunday Club– the newspaper that’s all games, no news!
On savoring life & “The Orange” 🍊 I don’t know where I read this poem, but the very next day, I read this post centering on the poem, and the sentiment has been on my mind on repeat all month long.
May Buena Vista Social Club Tiny Desk Concert inspire a very joyful soundtrack for your spring clean session like it did for me!
Whimsy + McSweeney’s + Lisa Frank– stunning! I love that this post is like a haul video, but 100% better paced for a reader like me.
A list of things my soul longs for 🤍
- If you click on nothing else in this post, click on this one!

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Housekeeping 📫 April will be the final month where I write two newsletters each week. By May, expect once-a-week posts plus these monthly wrap-ups. 👋 I’d love to see you again!