My Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

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Monthly Archives: October 2008



Your Happiness Project: Enjoy the fun of failure.

I’m working on my Happiness Project, and you should have one, too! Everyone’s project will look different, but it’s the rare person who can’t benefit. Join in — no need to catch up, just jump in right now. Each Friday’s post will help you think about your own happiness project. I’m very competitive, and also insecure, and I hate, hate, …


The exquisite happiness of having an original thought.

I was walking down the street and thinking about the novel I finished last night, Marilynne Robinson’s Home. Something tugged at my mind; the book reminded of something else I’d read, but I couldn’t think what it was. Suddenly it hit me, and the shock of recognition was so great that I stopped dead in my tracks (to the great …


Exercise: A quiz — Are you a likely exercise drop-out?

Every Wednesday is Tip Day (or Quiz Day). This Wednesday – A quiz: Are you a likely exercise drop-out? I discovered THE KEY to my Happiness Project. What is it? Resolutions. It has been the ability to make and keep my innumerable resolutions that has allowed me make real changes in my life, and therefore in my happiness. (As always, …