Feeling inexplicably cheery today? Thank your friends. And your friends’ friends. And your friends’ friends’ friends.
Walter Breuning of Great Falls said the secret to living a long life is staying active. And he should know. The retired Great Northern Railway worker celebrated his 112th birthday on Sunday. Breuning said that if "you keep your mind busy and keep your body busy, you're going to be around a long time."
On the eve of their national coming out party, almost everyone in Beijing seemed to be practicing something.
As a motivational speaker and executive coach, Caroline Adams Miller knows a few things about using mental exercises to achieve goals. But last year, one exercise she was asked to try took her by surprise.
Today we embark on a new year, with a chance to start over, a clean slate to which we can create or draw whatever future we would like to make for the upcoming year. It's about resolving for this year to be a fresh start.
Excerpt: Christmas is an exciting time for most children, but this little boy was so thrilled to receive a Nintendo Wii that footage of his delighted reaction has become a YouTube hit.
I've seen several others post a farwell to 2008 and figured that I would do the same. I'mnot one for a lot of words so here goes.... I hope that every one of my friends and fellow group members here on the Vine has a Happy New Year!
Excerpt: Bringing flowers to someone in the hospital has always been considered a nice thing to do, but researchers say the contact with nature may actually help people recover faster.
Blind and sighted athletes made the same expressions when they won and lost, US researchers found. More Articles
This holiday season, the grassroots movement, we as a Americans must helped build can make a big difference for those in need. I hope you will be supporting your favorite or contributing to causes that are respecially meaningful to the family.
ORLANDO, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) -- "This story touched him...like it touched all of us," said Carla Rodriguez, the florist who was spoke for a secret Santa.
Excerpt: In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and e …
In ancient pagan times, the last day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere was celebrated as the night that the Great Mother Goddess gives birth to the baby Sun God.
---Video on right side of page.-- MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - What would you do if you found a purse with thousands of dollars inside? Would you keep it or give it back? It was never a question for one Murfreesboro woman.
In apparent jubilation over Wal-Mart's putting "Christmas" back into its marketing after a three year absence, a "mass" of devout Christian (et al) shoppers stampeded into the Valley Stream (New York) Wal-Mart when the doors opened at 5 a.m. on Black Friday.
On this auspicious occasion of America's Thanksgiving, I would like to extend my sincere Thanksgiving to our President-elect Barack Obama and his family. The election of Barack Obama goes for beyond the political.
Just a tip for waitstaff worldwide: A little courtesy can go a long way. Jessica Osborne was so nice to one set of frequent patrons of the Indiana pizza restaurant where she works that they always requested her as their server.
Many years ago I was down on my luck I lived a life of misery depressed and utterly did not know where to turn. Then an inspiration came with a wake up call, what you doing man you're a waste of space.
In any relationship, there are good and bad days, but when do you know that it's time to break up? The easy answer is when the bad days outweigh the good, but it's more complicated than that.
Excerpt: As each blossom was pollinated, so was the delight of my neighbors. My cynical, unhappy neighbors were smiling. I would sit out on my front steps and hear words of praise.
A lot of moms stress about getting their babies on a nap schedule. That want to set a routine so the kids know what to rely on and so parents can organize their days. But this mom is less worried about teaching her babies how to nap than about teaching herself.
When they worked together at the supermarket as teenagers, Debbie Day and Marilyn Morris thought they looked rather similar. They also got on well, and later sent their children to the same school.
No, it's not photoshopped - while out for a stroll in the UK's Peak District, Mark Manders discovered this happy-looking dragonfly and quickly snapped some shots on his camera phone (good advert for the phone, eh – and no, we don't know what make it was).
Ever wondered what people have as their happiest moment? I found to many happiest moments but one is a cut above the rest by a far far far bigger marging, and it most probably is the same for most people. But the day my little boy was born by cesearean section.
No one knows more about how to create a successful marriage than those who live it every day. In their new book, Wonderful Marriage, Lilo and Gerry Leeds, who've been married for more than 56 years, share their wisdom on how to build and sustain a strong and lasting partnership.
Gary Null: "Let's go into our studio in New York City where, standing by, we have Doug Henderson. Hi Doug." Doug Henderson: "How you doing today Gary?" Gary Null: "Doing great."
This is of a piece with a growing body of political research which finds that people on the extreme left (and extreme right) tend to be quite a bit happier than those with more moderate views.
What makes you happy? What gives you great pride? What brings a big smile to your face every time you see it? What is your reason for living? Is it your best friend, your spouse, your lover? Is it your child, your grandchild, your great-grandchild? Is it money in the bank?