Steven Hansen
It Feels So Good to Cry, But Why?
We can’t help it. Sometimes we burst into tears. We are only human. Although many animals shed tears, emotional tears — tears produced as...
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Steven Hansen
- Mar 3
- 2 min
Stop, Look Up and Take a Brain Break
Some blissfully practical advice for bearing up in these modern times with your sanity intact is to disengage from its endless demands...
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Steven Hansen
- Dec 24, 2023
- 2 min
Launch Your Dreams Sky High on New Year's Eve!
You can hold your wishes for a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2024 deep in your heart, OR you can have them released high above Times...
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Steven Hansen
- Aug 30, 2023
- 2 min
End-of-Summer Harvest of Charming Realities
August is the month of abundance. Farm stands are heaped with tender sweet corn and peaches so gloriously fragrant you can smell them...
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Steven Hansen
- Jun 23, 2023
- 2 min
Meet the Green Lady of Brooklyn
Summer has risen over New York City gently, gliding on the wings of a delicate springtime. Temps have been mercifully mild. Blue skies...
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Steven Hansen
- May 14, 2023
- 1 min
The Magic of Flowers
October may be the happiest month – specifically the first two weeks (see “Make it to October”) -- but spring is a whole season when most...
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Steven Hansen
- Mar 20, 2023
- 2 min
World's Happiest Place to Live 2023: Finland
Finland has been named the happiest country in the world for six years in a row – 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. That honor was...
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Deena Ebbert
- Feb 19, 2023
- 2 min
In Search of Shiny Objects and Teenage Turkeys
On the days my system is running a happiness deficit, I keep coming back to the same thing. When I’m in a really sour, foul, miserable...
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Steven Hansen
- Dec 5, 2022
- 1 min
Create a Hyggekrog
Perhaps you’ve heard of it – Hygge that is. The Danish appreciation of things that provide a feeling of cozy contentment and well-being....
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Steven Hansen
- Sep 13, 2022
- 6 min
“If You Could Live Anywhere," How Do You Choose? Read On!
It started with the “digital nomads” of the late 1990s. Then the van-lifers of the early 2010s. Small groups of adventure seekers were...
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Steven Hansen
- Jul 26, 2022
- 1 min
Jump Up and Down!
Let me be the 11th person this week to rag at you that you need to get more exercise. Or the 12th, including your conscience. You’ll look...
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Steven Hansen
- Nov 29, 2021
- 1 min
Sip the Mmm-magic of Matcha
It’s getting chilly out there these days. Great weather for enjoying a nice hot cup of tea. How about a cup of matcha? Matcha, the...
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Steven Hansen
- Oct 18, 2021
- 1 min
Take a Nap
Finally! Scientifically proven evidence that we’d all feel happier if everybody just took a nap! A study between napping and happiness...
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HA Staff
- Feb 24, 2021
- 2 min
Carmelo & Titti: The Sheer Joy of Diving
Carmelo Abela and Titti For nearly every day of her life, Titti, a Jack Russell terrier, and her human companion Carmelo Abela, dove...
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