Is Perfection the Enemy of Happiness?
by Valerie Alexander Last week, I mentioned that I bought and installed blackout curtains in our bedroom. This has been a huge improvement in keeping
by Valerie Alexander Last week, I mentioned that I bought and installed blackout curtains in our bedroom. This has been a huge improvement in keeping
It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what
by Valerie Alexander To show I’m not a complete Valentine’s Scrooge, I give you: Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of
This is going to be one of those rare crossover posts about both self-publishing and happiness. As with any journey, it is so much easier
by Valerie Alexander Not celebrating Valentine’s Day makes me very, very happy. (It also gives my husband a little joy…in the form of relief). At
I did something enormously difficult today. I hit the “Like” button on a Facebook post. Not just any Facebook post – the post of a
I saw something neat on the Internet today about introverts, and while that doesn’t apply to me (I am not introverted at all – almost
Gung Hay Fat Choy! It is the Year of the Snake, so celebrate, even with a culture that may not be your own. It’s far
by Valerie Alexander During the holidays this past year, we spent a lot of time visiting friends locally, just hanging out with people we hadn’t
by Valerie Alexander When I got up this morning, I could think of nothing to write on the blog today, but then on Facebook, a
by Valerie Alexander I had lunch last week with a business acquaintance and when I mentioned that I’d be self-publishing my book, Happiness as a
by Valerie Alexander The phrase above is a lesson I learned from my friend Niki, who is a ten year survivor of a particularly aggressive