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Change Your Name to Judy or Joshua
What’s in a name, you ask? How about the key to lifelong happiness and popularity. Psychologist David Holmes of Manchester (UK)...
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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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HA Staff
Nov 1, 20212 min read
Create A New Ritual
A friend and his spouse have a simple holiday tradition. They go out for breakfast on Thanksgiving morning. They go to the same cozy...
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Steven Hansen
Oct 25, 20212 min read
Caution: Buying Art May Be Addictive
For less than the price of a pack of cig’s, you can own an original painting by a noted artist. Or a piece of handmade jewelry, a...
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Steven Hansen
Oct 18, 20211 min read
Take a Nap
Finally! Scientifically proven evidence that we’d all feel happier if everybody just took a nap! A study between napping and happiness...
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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 25, 20211 min read
Make It to October
“Tis June, the fairest month of all, bright June, the month of roses.” Kansan poet Elva May Root makes a good point about the sixth month...
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Steven Hansen
Sep 20, 20211 min read
Listen to the Blues
That’s right. The Blues. Those heart-wrenching ballads sung by the genre’s finest -- and bluesiest -- singers like Muddy Waters, Ma...
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Steven Hansen
Sep 14, 20215 min read
Where Do You Belong?
As we continue to cautiously emerge from the bunkers of our pandemic isolation, it feels good to fall back into familiar routines once...
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Steven Hansen
Sep 9, 20211 min read
A New Ritual is Born in Denmark
The stunning new public library building in Aarhus, Denmark, seems to float above the shining sea of the city’s revitalized waterfront....
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Steven Hansen
Sep 6, 20213 min read
142 Days on the Appalachian Trail
In early spring of 2018, St. Louis-area business attorney Evan Schaeffer decided it was time to go outside and take a walk in the woods –...
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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 27, 20211 min read
Listen to the Most Beautiful Duet Ever Written
ClassicFM.com gives top billing to the “Flower Duet,” on its list of the most-uplifting classical duets ever written. Even if you’re not...
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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 16, 20211 min read
Banksy’s Summer 'Spraycation'
Sure, he’s subversive, political, and anti-art-establishment, but England’s mysterious and often-maddening street artist Banksy can sure...
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HA Staff
Aug 16, 20211 min read
Dance in the Rain
Maybe you had an especially challenging day, and to make matters worse, it’s pouring rain outside. But don’t let that get you down. In...
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Steven Hansen
Aug 9, 20211 min read
8 Minutes of Joy: Firefly Sanctuary
Follow adventure traveler Mike Corey into the Magic Forest near Nanacamilpa, Tlaxcala, Mexico, to see one of the most amazing sights of...
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