Instructions for a Happy Life

Take a look at these instructions for a happy life…

How to Make Time for Creativity

There’s a creative person buzzing around in each of us. But they can’t come to the phone right now, because they’re buried in admin and paperwork.

Gifts for Gifted Children

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Children at a Puppet Theatre, Paris, 1963

Each summer I teach creative writing classes at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. It’s a wonderful job for many reasons: my colleagues are uniformly, eccentrically brilliant, I’ve taught at campuses all over the country, from Los Angeles to the U.S. Virgin Islands

How to Be a Good Wife in the 1950s

Things are very different from how they were in the 1950s. But we can all learn a little from reading about being a good housewife in the 1950s.

The “Good Wife’s Guide” is a magazine article rumored to have been published in the May 13, 1955 issue of Housekeeping Monthly, describing how a good wife should act

The Sea: Beautiful Oil Paintings

When you first consider The Sea, a series by South African artist Philip Barlow you would think they were blurred photographs rather than oil paintings of beach life.

The 4 Stages Of Life

“Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto.

The Happiest House in The World

A house that looks alive and jolly is not only possible in cartoons. This fanciful one-of-a-kind architectural piece was built in Braunschweig (or Brunswick), Germany at the beginning of the millennium. The main culprit for the Rizzihaus was the Brooklyn pop-artist James Rizzi, famous for his characteristic chromatic pop-art genius.

10 Life Lessons Kids Can Teach Us

What do children know that adults seem to have forgotten? Children are more confident, more courageous and enjoy life far more intensely than adults. Sometimes it feels that we spend our entire lives trying to return to who we were as children. Here’s what we can learn from our younger selves to bring more clarity and joy into adulthood.

Just… B

B hopeful, B happy, B cheerful, B kind,
B busy of body, B modest of mind,
B earnest, B truthful, B firm and B fair…
B watchful, B ready, B open, B frank,
B manly to all men, whatever B their rank,
B just and B generous, B honest, B wise…
B temperate, B steadfast, to anger B slow.

For The Love of Peanut Butter

There are few things in this world better than peanut butter and dogs in my world at least. And when you put the combination together, you get a humorous effect that is perfect for a photo series.