It's almost New Year's Eve, and that means it's the season for resolutions. I've always been part of the 44% of Americans who make (and also break) Ne...
Robert Rose | Posted 12.27.2008 | Living
Who's at fault? Everyone! No one! I believe that for a teacher to deal most effectively with the complexities of a classroom you must be considered the expert in your room.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 12.10.2008 | Living
Every Wednesday is Tip Day or Quiz Day. This Wednesday: Are you the person whom everyone else finds difficult? I was very impressed by the self-knowl...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 12.03.2008 | Living
Dorothea Brande was an American writer and editor, well known for her books Wake Up and Live and Becoming a Writer (a useful resource for writers, by ...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.30.2008 | Living
I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. ...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.26.2008 | Living
For many people, Thanksgiving is a joyous holiday; for many people, Thanksgiving is a dreaded holiday. One factor that can make it tough is spending t...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.19.2008 | Living
Most of us would like to get along well with others -- whether friends or strangers. One thing to keep in mind is that certain habits tend to get on o...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.17.2008 | Living
I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. ...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.12.2008 | Living
I blog regularly for Real Simple, on Simply Stated, and I was very HAPPY when they asked me to write something for the print magazine. I thought I'd p...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.09.2008 | Living
I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. ...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.05.2008 | Living
Every Wednesday is Tip Day. This Wednesday: Five happiness boosters that actually do more harm than good. It's the day after the election--maybe you'...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.02.2008 | Living
I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. ...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 10.22.2008 | Living
My nine-year-old daughter is fascinated by anything that smacks of paradox. Just yesterday, she noticed that a bank statement that I'd left on the kit...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 10.15.2008 | Living
The folks at Blog Action Day were prescient in their choice of "Poverty" as this year's subject. The current economic situation will mean that people ...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.28.2008 | Living
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....
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.24.2008 | Living
Of course, being happy at work depends mostly on how much you like your job. But there are also smaller steps that can boost your happiness, as well. ...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.17.2008 | Living
Well, September is half over, and I've managed NOT to eat any of my beloved Tasti D-Lite. And it hasn't even been that hard to give it up. How did I g...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.14.2008 | Living
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....
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.11.2008 | Living
Whatever you might order, and however it might be prepared, it has tons of butter on it.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.10.2008 | Living
"Do good, feel good" is one of the great truths of happiness -- but you may be thinking, "Sure, good deeds would make me happy, but I barely have time...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.07.2008 | Living
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....
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.29.2008 | Living
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....
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.27.2008 | Living
In one of my favorite movies, a quirky documentary called Sherman's March, the documentary maker's former high school teacher tells him, "As people ge...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.20.2008 | Living
Everyone knows that exercise is a KEY element to good health. The trick is keeping yourself motivated to exercise, if you're a person who naturally re...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.16.2008 | Living
By re-framing marginal, disfavored parts of my trip -- like the Newark airport -- so that they were no longer inconveniences, but actually part of the action, I prevented myself from getting aggravated.
Are nude animal rights protests old hat? We got word of a...
Rep. John Conyers has written a letter to Democratic colleagues urging them to join...
Rachel Maddow appeared on "The Daily...
As January 20 grows larger in the window, I've been thinking more often about the...
Editor's note: We first posted this in late July, back when...
I want to play poker with Harry Reid. Really I do. Rather than call for a...
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You know her as Lisa Bonet from "The Cosby Show," and Lilakoi Moon (Bonet changed her...
Several people have directed me today to the raw video of an interview of...
An article in next month's Atlantic asks, "Is porn...
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — A Long Island surgeon embroiled in a nearly...
Below the headlines about rocketing food prices and rocking governments, there...
Millions of children and adults have seizures in the United States, but dying...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 12.28.2008 | Living