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For Your Consideration: 7 Reasons to Read “Happier at Home.”

Warning: blatant self-promotion to follow! You’ve been warned! My new book, Happier at Home, comes out in a few weeks–on my wedding anniversary, which seems auspicious for a book about happiness at home. If you read this blog, I hope you’ll consider reading it. “Um, why should I buy your book,” some people have asked nicely, “when I can read …


Want a Chance To Win a Copy of “Happier at Home”? Now for the U.K., Too.

Happier at Home hits the shelves in less than a month! To celebrate, I’m giving away one book each day for the next few weeks–hot off the presses. Enter your name and email in the sign-up form here, and every day, someone will be picked at random. Open to readers in U.S. and Canada–and now the U.K. as well! I …


Unbelievable! My Book Is Being Advertised on TELEVISION!

My happiness-project resolutions include Push myself, Conquer a device, and Aim higher. I remind myself frequently that novelty and challenge bring happiness (they bring frustration, annoyance, and fear, but they bring happiness, too). A few weeks ago, after I watched a video by Slate ad critic Seth Stevenson, How I Ran an Ad on Fox News, about how it’s truly …