My Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

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How Do Children Affect Their Parents’ Happiness?

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how people affect each other with their positivity or negativity. That question presented itself with particular force this Saturday, because my five-year-old woke up on the wrong side of the bed, and by the end of the day, all four of us were in very crabby moods. One of the big, persistent questions …


“It Really Is Just So Much Easier To Be Who You Are.”

Happiness interview: Tsh Oxenreider. I don’t remember how I ended up on Simple Mom — “life hacks for home managers.” Probably the phrase “life hacks” lured me there; I can never resist a good life hack. I’ve also been thinking a lot about the virtue of “simplicity” lately, so I’m reading everything I can on the subject. (It turns out …