Steven Hansen
For Your Holiday Viewing Pleasure
No matter where you end up spending the holidays this year – stuck in an airport terminal, happy by yourself and off-the-clock in your...
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Steven Hansen
Nov 19, 20215 min read
The Best Gift Ever!
Oh, what to give them this year? It has to be something really special this time. In the past you’ve given a full menu of Edible...
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Steven Hansen
Nov 7, 20215 min read
Favorite Place to Read a Book
One of the simplest joys of life is curling up with a good book. To be transported – or even lost – inside a gripping mystery or horror...
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Steven Hansen
Oct 12, 20213 min read
No Boarding Passes Required!
A great way to whet your appetite for traveling again is to explore a few favorite destinations online but with a different perspective....
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Steven Hansen
Oct 5, 20215 min read
Yummy Origin Stories: The Cheeseburger
We love food! We especially love creative food treats that were invented to make us happy, if not necessarily healthy. You just know the...
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Steven Hansen
Sep 3, 20211 min read
Did Your Dog Just Say That?
A dog’s bark is represented in different ways in the English language, such as: bark-bark, woof-woof, arf-arf, ruff-ruff and bow-wow....
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Steven Hansen
Sep 1, 20212 min read
Enjoy These ‘Happy Place’ Contest Videos
We received a beautiful collection of entries in our first “Go to Your Happy Place” video contest. Thanks to all our followers who...
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Steven Hansen
Aug 24, 20212 min read
Yummy Origin Stories: Baked Grapefruit
We love food! We especially love creative recipes that were invented to make us happy. This recipe wasn’t invented by Mrs. Houdini, but...
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Steven Hansen
Aug 19, 20211 min read
Amazing Night Skies at Your Fingertips
You keep thinking you must book a winter trip to that Norwegian island above the Arctic Circle to see the majestic displays of the aurora...
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Steven Hansen
Aug 7, 20212 min read
Uplifting History
According to the Roman architect Vitruvius, elevators have been around since about 236 BC, when Archimedes built the first primitive...
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Steven Hansen
Jul 20, 20213 min read
Ear Bliss #3
Relax and take a well-deserved aural vacation listening to these five specially chosen selections that will help you escape a dreary or...
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Steven Hansen
Jul 16, 20211 min read
Enter Our 'Happy Place' Video Contest!
"Go to your happy place!" When you close your eyes and imagine your happy place, what does it look like? A private tropical island? The...
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Steven Hansen
Jul 9, 20212 min read
Yummy Origin Stories: Potato Chips
We love food! We especially love creative food treats that were invented to make us happy, if not necessarily healthy. You just know the...
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Steven Hansen
Jul 5, 20212 min read
Spirits of Our Heroes
Some well-oiled merrymaker once said, “You can’t buy happiness, but you can prepare a cocktail. And that’s kind of the same thing.”...
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HA Staff
Jun 19, 20211 min read
One-of-a-Kind Bookstore is Reborn
A Broadway institution reopens its doors at a beautiful new location.
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Steven Hansen
Jun 14, 20212 min read
Yummy Origin Stories: Soft Serve Ice Cream
Soft serve ice cream was an accidental discovery!
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Steven Hansen
Jun 11, 20213 min read
Happy Hideaways: Saint-Marc-sur-Mer
The places that promote carefree joy – and often deliver it – fashion themselves to be beyond the reach of the humdrum world. And they...
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Steven Hansen
May 31, 20212 min read
Bemelmans Bar: A Storybook ‘Nursery’ for Grown-ups
Ludwig Bemelmans, the author and illustrator of the popular “Madeline” books for children, was commissioned to hand-paint whimsical...
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Steven Hansen
May 21, 20211 min read
Street Fun: "Pssst…Look in here!"
Urban writer Charles Montgomery says that, “Happiness is a house with many rooms, but at its core is a hearth around which we gather with...
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HA Staff
Apr 25, 20211 min read
Big Bird Chills Out
A big blue version of Big Bird from Sesame Street has landed on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The...
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