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- Forget the death of Bambi’s mother. The scene that riveted me in the movie Bambi was dark, tense, everyone staring at the rude little rabbit who was […]
- Growing up number six in a family with eight kids, I put a great deal of stock in fairness. There was constant jockeying for my […]
- Last weekend, in company with a large percentage of western Canada, we stopped in Revelstoke. It was a hot mess: trucks, boats, trailers everywhere; long […]
- “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be,” Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said. A whole lot of psychologists […]
- If I were to tell you the truth—the truth that I am barely willing to allow myself to know—I am almost always afraid. When I […]
- I have a lovely neighbor who likes to believe that those beer cans by the roadside blew out of the back of someone’s truck on […]
- In parts of rural Britain, sheep are said to be “hefted to the land.” After hundreds of years of being herded on common land, the […]
- I remember the freedom I felt, as a young adult, when I realized that every painful occurrence was not intentional. I read and re-read a […]
- My baby sister had brand new red roller skates. She lurched through the kitchen as I stood silent, radiating envy. The floor trim between the […]
- One of my favorite online resources is the Greater Good Science Center at UC-Berkeley. Researchers in the science of happiness and gratitude, they’ve got a […]