I loved Gretchen Rubin’s article on “drift” … essentially making a decision by not making a decision. She gives the example of an engaged friend of hers who clearly didn’t want to get married, but didn’t do anything to prevent it, and then got divorced a year later. Gretchen explains, “Drift feels small, but once…

Another favorite post of Gretchen’s is the one on how to “Forgive an Accident.” Probably because, as a person who struggles with severe ruminations, I can so often be disabled … literally … by running a mistake over and over again in my head until that mistake takes over all the gray matter of my…

Hara Estroff Marano penned a fascinating article about jealousy called “Jealousy: Love’s Destroyer” in the last issue of “Psychology Today.” Since this deadly sin is one of my most unbecoming qualities–or so I have been told by friends–I was anxious to find out, perhaps, why I am so jealousy and what I can do about…

Thanks to James Bishop’s Optimism Software, I’ve become meticulous about my sleep hygiene this summer. I go to bed every night between 9:30 and 10:00 p.m., and I wake up (many times begrudgingly) at 5:30 or 6:00 a.m. Eight hours I get. No more and no less. I sleep in my bed. Not in my…

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