Archive for the 'Happiness' Category
Sandra Bullock and Happiness
March 30th, 2010There is a wonderful OpEd in the New York Times from David Brooks on Happiness and Success and I highly recommend you read it. Here are some snippets I really liked:
“The daily activities most associated with happiness are sex, socializing after work and having dinner with others. The daily activity most injurious to happiness is […]
The benefits of walking a dog
December 17th, 2009On a rather stressful day, I really enjoyed reading this article on the benefits of walking a dog. Here is a snippet on how walking a dog helped people in an assisted living home:
To the surprise of the researchers, the dog walkers showed a big improvement in fitness, while the human walkers began making excuses […]
Shmuley Boteach on Tiger Woods and Infidelity
December 15th, 2009“IN TRUTH, men have affairs not for physical reasons but for emotional ones. They cheat not out of a sense of confidence but out of a state of brokenness. Not out of a sense of how desirable they are but out of a sense of what failures they are. And this is especially true of […]
Jefferson
August 19th, 2009Enjoy this wonderful blog post from the New York Times by Maira Kalman about Thomas Jefferson. Really wonderful.
Kalman on Jefferson
Plants Vs. Zombies
June 16th, 2009I grew up loving video games as a kid. Unfortunately, as I have gotten older I have less and less time for simple leisure and games. But every now and then I hear about an addictive game and I slip into the little kid I once was. It happened several years ago with Half Life […]
Life Lessons From the Family Dog
April 3rd, 2009New York Times editor Dana Jennings is coping with prostate cancer and wrote a blog post about his dog. I feel the same way about my dog, Frankie. Here is a snippet:
In spending so much time with Bijou, I began to realize that our dogs, in their carefree dogginess, make us more human, force us […]
What happens when money and business define you?
January 8th, 2009The economic crisis descending upon us is having a profound impact on many people’s lives. One of the most troubling things to witness is the rise in suicides, especially high profile suicides. The past two days news of US property mogul, Sheldon Good, and the German business magnate, Adolph Merckle, have graced the front pages […]
So proud
October 29th, 2008I’m a Georgia Bulldog. On Saturdays I bleed red and black. I cannot tell you how proud I am that Mark Richt is our head coach. I actually have had the opportunity to meet with him when I threw a charity flag football event for the Athens, GA Boys and Girls Club. And I can […]
Jewish Perfection
July 25th, 2008Perfection is definitely not a Jewish thought or attribute. Consider the patriarchs of Judaism such as Noah who gets drunk, Jacob who steals his brother’s birthright by misleading his father Isaac, and even Moses, the greatest of all Jews, speaks with a lisp and disobeys God. And we could have a field day talking about […]
Voyage
July 16th, 2008This is one of the best things I’ve ever read:
To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen, who play with their boats at sea–”cruising”, it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and […]