Dr. Nicholas Christakis, who studies the mathematical, social, and genetic determinants of social network structure, explains how happiness flows one person to another. Watch Your Friends’ Friends Can Make You Happy on PBS. See more from This Emotional Life. Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is a social scientist and physician who conducts research on […]
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I have long been accused of being an organized person, I really wish I was. Because I have an organizational dysfunction I have to fake it. I make lists, all the time, of everything. On my refrigerator I have 3 notepads with magnets, one for groceries, one for bills, one for misc. When I was
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Well, relatively speaking! It’s G-rated also, sorry for any disappointment that may incur. Now that my children are grown, a lot of my friend’s kids are grown as well, or old enough to be more independent, and it leaves us with unexpected time on our hands. At first I thought I would travel, catch up
There are days when it’s difficult to see things in a positive light, when clouds are gray and gloomy, traffic is bad, there are crying children in the store, and you have an unbearable headache. I have a list of my favorite things that I remind myself of on these days. Everything is my favorite,
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When it comes to motherhood usually I talk about myself as a mother and what that has meant to me. I rarely, if ever, discuss my own mother and our relationship, except in passing. We have, at best, a complicated relationship. I distinctly remember telling my kids “You will never treat me the way I
Lance Mackey is an American dog musher and dog sled racer from Fairbanks, Alaska, who is a four-time winner of the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest and four-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. In this video Lance, a cancer-fighter and survivor, talks about his passion, his disease and his dogs. According to Wikipedia, “Mackey
Every day when I wake up I first stretch out my legs in hopes that they will hold me, then before I get out of bed I say a prayer for all the things I am grateful for, then I remind myself of all the things I want to do today… I want to be
I do not know the moment where it started. I just know, one day I looked in the mirror and found that I had become the person, I never wanted to be. I had always worn people out with my very energetic ways. I am still the person who runs around on about four to
I am using mature in the loosest sense possible, what I mean is over 35, age too often has nothing to do with maturity level. The sad thing about that is if one person is mature and the other is not it will cause problems in the relationship, if both are immature it will cause
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There are days when life is hard, when your body hurts, when you just want to stay in bed; for those of us with a chronic illness or autoimmune disease we have days when getting out of bed isn’t even an option, no matter what we want to do, or have scheduled that day. Recently
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