Happiness is a Skill

Kabari walla I was visiting my home country( India) and having arrived at the godly hour of 4 am was just about drifting into slumber land ...

I think most of us know what the above phrase stands for. …. It is an emergency code word used internationally as a distress signal in case ...

Monkey see, monkey do!! According to Wikipedia, Monkey see, monkey do is a traditional cliché that popped up in American culture in the ...

Give before you can get In my research for “happiness in a bottle” . I came across various adages and quotations on happiness. Happiness is ...

How does it matter what people say????? I was at my daughter’s school this afternoon, helping with the organization of the forthcoming fair....

Happiness is a habit Simply put, happiness is a habit. So can we train ourselves to be happy? According to Wray Herbert as stated in the New...

GPS- Global Positioning System I just got back from a holiday in Massachusetts, United States. We drove from New York to Boston to Cape Cod ...

Would you hug a stranger? I volunteer at my daughter school from time to time to help out with (GGR) Group Guided Reading. Today was one of ...

Why wait till you are about to die to start living?? The doctor comes out looking rather grim and sullen. The look says it all, her cancer h...

The other day, I went to my daughter’s school and was watching the young children running around and laughing. They were so full of Joie de ...

Teaching children happiness! I take my daughter for golf lessons, guitar lessons, painting lessons, mandarin lessons, yoga and ballet. She ...

The Full Monty I was at my daughter’s school fair selling helium balloons and spinning the wheel of fortune for a bunch of kids dressed as p...

Slow down, I just heard a talk on Ted.com by Carl Honore, who is trying to start a slow movement. It’s interesting that I heard this talk, j...

Last night at about 9 pm I told my helper to prepare the dinner and leave it in the kitchen. We’d had a late lunch and weren’t particularl...

Smile and say thanks You go to bed at night, waiting to drift into slumber land and you are almost half way there when a m...

I just got back from Dhaka……..a place that in my opinion is a hell hole. Not because of the poverty and filth, but the corruption that accom...

Observe the pain We spent the afternoon soaking in the sun on a beach with some friends and their children and had a wonderful time. I came...

Peter Pan and the power of belief Went to see Peter pan tonight. Was not really keen on spending two hours with 4 children going ooh and aa...

Looks don’t matter, or do they? Looks don’t matter! Such a clichéd statement. However much we may deny it, most if not all of us are influe...

Ideas and creativity What is an idea? The Webster’s dictionary defines it as ‘form or appearance of a thing as opposed to its reality’ i.e. ...