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Happiness
Round-up: Graduates, Do What You Love
The round-up is coming a little late this week because I spent Thursday at Princeton for the She Roars conference, and Friday and Saturday at the American Society of Journalists and Authors conference in New York. I got some interesting take-aways. For instance, the Wall Street Journal’s social media people have found that when they put a colon befor… read more »
Do We Like To Work?
In her blog recently, Kimberly Weisul noted a study that found that Europeans are happier when they work less and have more leisure, but Americans aren’t. There are many reasons Americans may be happier working more — perhaps the returns are better here, or we associate more hours with success. Or we’re less enamored with leisure time. P… read more »
The Happiest Mom, And How We Spend Our Time
I spent some time this past week reading Megan Francis’s new book, The Happiest Mom. Meagan is a long-time friend of 168 Hours, and writes a great blog about how to be a happier parent. Why is such a blog needed? Happiness research continues to find that parents are less happy than non-parents on a moment-by-moment basis. Our overall life satisfaction i… read more »
A Different Sort of Travel
Hearing loss has always struck me as an incredibly difficult disability. I know it will happen to many of us as we age, but it makes in-person interactions complicated. You miss cues, and people think you’re rude (when nothing can be further from the truth!)
All this is fine if you’re in the US with the easy availability of hearing aids (even if the… read more »
Musings On A Not-So-Small House
A few months ago, I posed a question to blog readers: What Does One Put In a 10,000 Square Foot House? Some people pointed me over to Sarah Susanka’s works (The Not So Big House series), which I found fascinating. I interviewed Susanka, and will have some insights from her in The Money Book (the title is in flux again. I’m starting to think it might be… read more »
