Success is:______. How would you fill in the blank? "That's easy," you might say. "Success is ... for an athlete, winning the Super Bowl, the World Series, or a gold medal: for an entertainer, winning an Oscar, a Grammy, or an Emmy; for a businessperson, being a top executive with one of the Fortune 500 companies: for a university student, being...

Have you heard about The Happiness Project? It’s a nonfiction book by Gretchen Rubin  which enjoyed a good long run on the New York Times’ best sellers list.  The author describes the book as “a memoir of the year I spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, the current scientific studies, and the lessons from popular culture about how to...

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” ~Mother Theresa He is unaware of my presence. His eyes are closed, the patterned quilt above him faintly rising and falling. The small clock radio at his bedside blares an old country station, but the silence is overwhelming. Grandchildren innocently look out from photographs haphazardly...

A few weeks ago I discovered an obscure online "game." It's called Every Day the Same Dream, and I put the word "game" in quotes because it's not much like a normal video game. It's more like an interactive art project. The creator describes it as being "A short existential game about alienation and refusal of labour. Or, if you prefer, a playable...

5 tips for a happy day. I have to be honest: Until I became a mom seven years ago, I had no idea how stressful and even (let’s face it) awful Mother’s Day could be. I knew, of course, it was rough on the women who desperately wanted to be moms and on mothers who had lost children. I even got that it was hard for moms who spent the day far...