As I walked down the bleachers toward the main floor, I saw a clown seated there. She was a woman in whiteface with a red clown nose, ruffles, big shoes — the full costume.
My last ridiculous obstacle
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Another Week: Number 186
The ‘dog days’ arrive in a heat wave with wildfire smoke. Trump’s Iran war continues, with 18 U.S. service members killed so far. Plus: Jungian podcasts and ‘The Aviator’ (1994).
‘The Power of Habit’: Break bad habits, form good ones
The Power of Habit in paperbackUpdate: A paperback edition of The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, by Charles Duhigg, was published on January 7, 2014. Although we may not be aware of it, we spend most of our lives doing routine things that...
Positive thinking can make you depressed
Curmudgeons rejoice! At long last, science suggests that the forced sunniness imposed by religious evangelists, sales motivators, and self-help books from The Power of Positive Thinking to The Secret can actually make you feel worse. Today's "Science Digest" at...
Happiness greater with friends nearby
The "Your happiness could be contagious" story was all over the news yesterday, but it makes much more of an impression when it's accompanied by file footage of happy people, as in last night's NBC Nightly News story, embedded above. [includeme...