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    Listen! Arts & Culture Radio Live and On-demand
    Steven Hansen
    • 7 hours ago
    • 1 min

    Listen! Arts & Culture Radio Live and On-demand

    It’s easier than ever to listen to our subscribers’ favorite arts and culture radio stations, AudioBook Radio and JasonCharles.net. Both...
    21 views0 comments
    The Secret Key to NYC’s Beacon of Light
    Steven Hansen
    • May 10
    • 1 min

    The Secret Key to NYC’s Beacon of Light

    When red, white, and blue lights were turned on atop the Empire State Building to commemorate the country’s 1976 bicentennial, they lit...
    24 views0 comments
    Gardeners: Lettuce Be Joyful and Plant!
    Steven Hansen
    • Mar 20
    • 3 min

    Gardeners: Lettuce Be Joyful and Plant!

    Spring is here! It’s time to stop dreaming and start planning your garden, whether it’s a window box, a raised bed, a neighborhood garden...
    43 views0 comments
    Yummy Origin Stories: Jiffy Pop
    HA Staff
    • Jan 28
    • 3 min

    Yummy Origin Stories: Jiffy Pop

    We love food! We especially love creative food treats that were invented to make us happy, if not necessarily healthy. You just know the...
    35 views0 comments
    Ear Bliss #4
    Steven Hansen
    • Dec 28, 2021
    • 2 min

    Ear Bliss #4

    Relax and take a well-deserved aural vacation listening to these four specially chosen selections that will help you escape a dreary or...
    58 views0 comments
    For Your Holiday Viewing Pleasure
    Steven Hansen
    • Dec 20, 2021
    • 2 min

    For Your Holiday Viewing Pleasure

    No matter where you end up spending the holidays this year – stuck in an airport terminal, happy by yourself and off-the-clock in your...
    100 views0 comments
    The Best Gift Ever!
    Steven Hansen
    • Nov 19, 2021
    • 5 min

    The Best Gift Ever!

    Oh, what to give them this year? It has to be something really special this time. In the past you’ve given a full menu of Edible...
    72 views0 comments
    Favorite Place to Read a Book
    Steven Hansen
    • Nov 7, 2021
    • 5 min

    Favorite Place to Read a Book

    One of the simplest joys of life is curling up with a good book. To be transported – or even lost – inside a gripping mystery or horror...
    43 views0 comments
    No Boarding Passes Required!
    Steven Hansen
    • Oct 12, 2021
    • 3 min

    No Boarding Passes Required!

    A great way to whet your appetite for traveling again is to explore a few favorite destinations online but with a different perspective....
    64 views0 comments
    Yummy Origin Stories: The Cheeseburger
    Steven Hansen
    • Oct 5, 2021
    • 5 min

    Yummy Origin Stories: The Cheeseburger

    We love food! We especially love creative food treats that were invented to make us happy, if not necessarily healthy. You just know the...
    45 views0 comments
    Did Your Dog Just Say That?
    Steven Hansen
    • Sep 3, 2021
    • 1 min

    Did Your Dog Just Say That?

    A dog’s bark is represented in different ways in the English language, such as: bark-bark, woof-woof, arf-arf, ruff-ruff and bow-wow....
    29 views0 comments
    Enjoy These ‘Happy Place’ Contest Videos
    Steven Hansen
    • Sep 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Enjoy These ‘Happy Place’ Contest Videos

    We received a beautiful collection of entries in our first “Go to Your Happy Place” video contest. Thanks to all our followers who...
    39 views2 comments
    Yummy Origin Stories: Baked Grapefruit
    Steven Hansen
    • Aug 24, 2021
    • 2 min

    Yummy Origin Stories: Baked Grapefruit

    We love food! We especially love creative recipes that were invented to make us happy. This recipe wasn’t invented by Mrs. Houdini, but...
    48 views0 comments
    Amazing Night Skies at Your Fingertips
    Steven Hansen
    • Aug 19, 2021
    • 1 min

    Amazing Night Skies at Your Fingertips

    You keep thinking you must book a winter trip to that Norwegian island above the Arctic Circle to see the majestic displays of the aurora...
    29 views0 comments
    Uplifting History
    Steven Hansen
    • Aug 7, 2021
    • 2 min

    Uplifting History

    According to the Roman architect Vitruvius, elevators have been around since about 236 BC, when Archimedes built the first primitive...
    16 views0 comments
    Ear Bliss #3
    Steven Hansen
    • Jul 20, 2021
    • 3 min

    Ear Bliss #3

    Relax and take a well-deserved aural vacation listening to these five specially chosen selections that will help you escape a dreary or...
    28 views0 comments
    Enter Our 'Happy Place' Video Contest!
    Steven Hansen
    • Jul 16, 2021
    • 1 min

    Enter Our 'Happy Place' Video Contest!

    "Go to your happy place!" When you close your eyes and imagine your happy place, what does it look like? A private tropical island? The...
    10 views0 comments
    Yummy Origin Stories: Potato Chips
    Steven Hansen
    • Jul 9, 2021
    • 2 min

    Yummy Origin Stories: Potato Chips

    We love food! We especially love creative food treats that were invented to make us happy, if not necessarily healthy. You just know the...
    34 views0 comments
    Spirits of Our Heroes
    Steven Hansen
    • Jul 5, 2021
    • 2 min

    Spirits of Our Heroes

    Some well-oiled merrymaker once said, “You can’t buy happiness, but you can prepare a cocktail. And that’s kind of the same thing.”...
    26 views1 comment
    One-of-a-Kind Bookstore is Reborn
    HA Staff
    • Jun 19, 2021
    • 1 min

    One-of-a-Kind Bookstore is Reborn

    A Broadway institution reopens its doors at a beautiful new location.
    20 views0 comments
    Yummy Origin Stories: Soft Serve Ice Cream
    Steven Hansen
    • Jun 14, 2021
    • 2 min

    Yummy Origin Stories: Soft Serve Ice Cream

    Soft serve ice cream was an accidental discovery!
    38 views0 comments
    Happy Hideaways: Saint-Marc-sur-Mer
    Steven Hansen
    • Jun 11, 2021
    • 3 min

    Happy Hideaways: Saint-Marc-sur-Mer

    The places that promote carefree joy – and often deliver it – fashion themselves to be beyond the reach of the humdrum world. And they...
    43 views0 comments
    Bemelmans Bar: A Storybook ‘Nursery’ for Grown-ups
    Steven Hansen
    • May 31, 2021
    • 2 min

    Bemelmans Bar: A Storybook ‘Nursery’ for Grown-ups

    Ludwig Bemelmans, the author and illustrator of the popular “Madeline” books for children, was commissioned to hand-paint whimsical...
    27 views1 comment
    Street Fun: "Pssst…Look in here!"
    Steven Hansen
    • May 21, 2021
    • 1 min

    Street Fun: "Pssst…Look in here!"

    Urban writer Charles Montgomery says that, “Happiness is a house with many rooms, but at its core is a hearth around which we gather with...
    34 views0 comments
    Big Bird Chills Out
    HA Staff
    • Apr 25, 2021
    • 1 min

    Big Bird Chills Out

    A big blue version of Big Bird from Sesame Street has landed on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The...
    43 views0 comments
    Ear Bliss #2
    Steven Hansen
    • Apr 24, 2021
    • 2 min

    Ear Bliss #2

    Falling snow, a cat purring, jazz harp, New York traffic noise and a tiny love story. Listen and smile from ear to ear.
    31 views0 comments
    Home Is Where the Art Is
    Steven Hansen
    • Apr 20, 2021
    • 2 min

    Home Is Where the Art Is

    In the early spring of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic began to rage, widespread quarantines kept people inside their homes, and closed...
    33 views0 comments
    90 Seconds of Joy: Roller Coaster Open House
    Steven Hansen
    • Apr 13, 2021
    • 1 min

    90 Seconds of Joy: Roller Coaster Open House

    To launch their daily “House Promoter” project in style, Amsterdam’s ABN Amro Bank made sure that house viewings at one house in Ermelo...
    23 views1 comment
    Yummy Origin Stories: Frito Pie
    HA Staff
    • Apr 10, 2021
    • 2 min

    Yummy Origin Stories: Frito Pie

    We love food! We especially love creative food treats that were invented to make us happy, if not necessarily healthy. You just know the...
    41 views0 comments
    Choirboy Inhales Helium
    Steven Hansen
    • Apr 3, 2021
    • 1 min

    Choirboy Inhales Helium

    On April 1, 2014, the legendary Choir of King’s College Cambridge found a possible solution enabling older choir boys to continue to hit...
    60 views0 comments
    The Rambunctious Fun of OK Go!
    Steven Hansen
    • Apr 1, 2021
    • 1 min

    The Rambunctious Fun of OK Go!

    OK Go, the L.A. rock band, born in Chicago, is known to millions of adoring fans the world over as much for the mind-bogglingly fun music...
    23 views0 comments
    Yummy Origin Stories: Chocolate Chip Cookies
    Steven Hansen
    • Mar 24, 2021
    • 1 min

    Yummy Origin Stories: Chocolate Chip Cookies

    We love food! We especially love creative food treats that were invented to make us happy, if not necessarily healthy. You just know the...
    25 views0 comments
    Retro-pedaling: A Look Backward
    Steven Hansen
    • Mar 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Retro-pedaling: A Look Backward

    If you’ve seen people walking backward in the park on a nice sunny morning, you probably thought they were either severely disoriented or...
    22 views0 comments
    12 Outrageous Kid-Invented Snacks
    HA Staff
    • Mar 1, 2021
    • 5 min

    12 Outrageous Kid-Invented Snacks

    These fun, wacky snacks invented by hungry kids and teenage dorm-dwellers make us giggle. Creativity and daring know no bounds when it...
    33 views0 comments
    Nicest Words You'll Ever Hear
    Steven Hansen
    • Feb 28, 2021
    • 1 min

    Nicest Words You'll Ever Hear

    You always remember that one special message that made your day, your career, your life. Here’s our random selection of the best VMs,...
    19 views0 comments
    Ear Bliss
    Steven Hansen
    • Feb 27, 2021
    • 1 min

    Ear Bliss

    Six fun and different audio clips will sooth and entertain your tired brain
    17 views0 comments
    World's Biggest Snowperson
    Steven Hansen
    • Feb 27, 2021
    • 1 min

    World's Biggest Snowperson

    The tallest snowman -- or in this case snowwoman – ever made was “Olympia” (named for Maine’s Sen. Olympia Snowe). The 122-foot tall...
    21 views0 comments
    Yummy Origin Stories: Stuckey's Pecan Log Roll
    Steven Hansen
    • Feb 23, 2021
    • 2 min

    Yummy Origin Stories: Stuckey's Pecan Log Roll

    We love food! We especially love creative food treats that were invented to make us happy, if not necessarily healthy. You just know the...
    123 views0 comments
    Happy Hideaways: Tenerife
    Happiness Archive Editor
    • Feb 18, 2021
    • 2 min

    Happy Hideaways: Tenerife

    The places that promote carefree joy – and often deliver it – fashion themselves to be beyond the reach of the humdrum world. And they...
    34 views0 comments
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