Posted On: January 18, 2021
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Danish art about getting hyggelig from a boutique in a small coastal town
As a 100% Scandinavian mutt, I’ve enjoyed unforgettable travels in their lands, and maintain a stubborn habit of studying their ways of…
Posted On: July 5, 2019
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Happy 4th of July (weekend)! Happy long days. It’s summer vacation season. So get up and go somewhere. Be happy go lucky!
Posted On: April 11, 2016
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Last month, the United Nations declared Denmark the happiest country of the 156 they surveyed. For the third time. Since 2012. “Happiness” may be a worn-out word and hard-to-measure commodity. But the UN has cred.…
Posted On: September 9, 2012
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Happiness gets a lot of attention. In fact, Americans seem obsessed with it (or the pursuit of it). This closet curmudgeon sometimes gets crabby about this simplistic word—and wonders if we ought not to increase…
Posted On: January 1, 2011
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Folks have been making self-improvement promises since, well, Babylonia. The Romans did it too—while worshipping the two-faced god Janus (no relation to the mutual fund, but closely related to the month). Nowadays, resolutions make for…
Posted On: January 5, 2010
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Away, stress recedes.
Struggles, stuff, lists: washed to sea.
Just for now, all’s cool.…
Posted On: November 11, 2009
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photo by Kirk Horsted
A BreakAway is a spiritual thing. A BreakAway brings on introspection—whether the pause is 10 minutes of meditation or 10 months in the Mediterranean. It’s an opportunity to come face to…
Posted On: July 3, 2009
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As we continue this series about finding little ways to find free time—and inch yourself closer to a bona fide BreakAway—today we propose you do drop in to the occasional pub. Or coffee shop. Or…
Posted On: May 1, 2009
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Gretchen Rubin is generating quite the buzz with her “Happiness Project.” And in this HuffPost blogpost, she asserts that reliving happy memories from the past is one small secret that happy people share. I so…
