My Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

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Happiness Is…Being Back at Home.

Home again! No matter how much I enjoy a trip, I’m always very happy to be home. In the past, I often felt bad about my lack of a deep enthusiasm for traveling. Didn’t my love of hanging around my own apartment show a lack of adventurousness, a limited curiosity about the world, a cramped sense of possibility? (Not to …


“Life Is Not So Short But That There Is Aways Time for Courtesy.”

“Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson * If you’d like a personalized, signed bookplate to put in your copy of The Happiness Project, email me your name, or someone else’s name, and the address to which I should mail the bookplate, and I’ll send it right off. Feel free …