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The Life-Changing Power of Magical Thinking (opens the original)
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Today’s essay is part of my ongoing series, 100 Happiness Books. I’m reading 100 books about happiness, joy, and contentment and reporting back what holds up in real life. Subscribe to get them all in your inbox, and let me know in the comments what books have made you happier!Do you believe in magic?We’ve all heard stories of human experiences that sound like magic—a man undergoes surgery without anesthesia by practicing self-hypnosis, a woman somehow survives an Alaskan wilder
The Fallpocalypse is Upon Us (opens the original)
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Last Tuesday I was juggling texts from my kids about the chores I’d asked them to complete while working to meet a deadline, one eye on an email inbox filling with emails from school, sports, theater, medical specialists—each one representing another 1-3 items I’d need to add to my already overflowing to-do list.Phone dinging, I bent to capture just one more thought before it left my brain, then rushed to log on to a Zoom with my book coach.Thanks for reading Living the In-Be
How Was the Bat Mitzvah? (opens the original)
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Changing My Life: July Didn't Exist. But I'm Not Mad About It (opens the original)
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Well, friends, that’s a wrap on July. And if you’re like me and woke up this morning thinking, “Gee, that went by fast...” there’s a reason why.It’s because “July” doesn’t actually exist. Because time isn’t real. Or, more accurately, time doesn’t exist in the way we think it does.But does understanding that our sense of time is essentially a trick of perception make us any happier?I’ve spent much of my summer trying to figure it out, making my way through The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli, at t
I Had My First Drink in 9 Years (opens the original)
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This month marks 9 years since the day I went alcohol free.With one asterisk.In April, while traveling in Tokyo with my family, we met up with some friends at a busy izakaya. I asked if they had a particular NA beer that many places stock, and ordered it. I received a bottle with a label that looked similar to one I’d drunk the day before, then drank half of it before realizing—I feel really weird.Yeah, it wasn’t NA.The friends I was with were so upset for me. Oh no! they cried. You’ve been sobe
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