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 …Read More
Category Archives: Happiness
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 …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 …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 …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 …Read More
Not Another Before-You-Have-Kids List!
First let me say that I love Erin Zammett Ruddy's writing, and I know that she had qualms about the genre of this piece (see …Read More
Really? Working Parents Are Too Stressed For Sex?
The headline over at Care.com was designed to grab eyeballs: "New Study Finds Working Parents Are Too Stressed to Go to the Gym, Call a …Read More
Random Acts of Microphilanthropy
One of the ideas I'm advocating in the Book Currently Known As Plenty is to create a small fund of charity fun money. I think …Read More
Sunday Night Blues?
It's a fairly common phenomenon: somewhere around mid-day Sunday, people who aren't blissfully happy with their Monday routines start to feel a twinge of anxiety. …Read More
A Tale of Two Requiems
If anyone reading this lives in New York City, I'm singing in a performance of the Brahms Requiem at Symphony Space on Friday night. Please …Read More