Category: Celebrations

Friday Freedonist: Come on a Small Pleasures Safari
I choose to make my life fun. That’s why I have so many games weaving through it. You can make a game out of almost anything, and flip something boring into something that makes you giggle. There’s the What Can I Make Out of X, Y, and Z for Dinner? game, the How Can I […]

Happiness and Hedonism: Nudging Yourself Toward a Happy Life
People ask me why I write about what I write about. At least one person in my life gives me a hard time for “glorifying hedonism,” as though I’m advocating for naked drunken reveling with the Rockettes in a posh Gold Coast mansion (not that there’s anything wrong with that). I wonder about it sometimes. […]

Decorating with Meaning: A Different Way to Look at Your Space
From where I sit, I can look around the room and know that I am part of something good. On the wall to my left, there is a brilliantly-colored painting, a gift, made by a local artist who does an amazing job at capturing animals in their natural habitat. The subject(s) are a cluster of […]

Happy Birthday to Me: Are You Celebrating Your Birthday (Week) in Green Hedonist Style?
Let me start by explaining that, here in our house, the concept of isolating a single 24-hour period to celebrate the day of our emergence on this planet is laughable. Twenty fours hours to celebrate 52 years of this wild, inexplicable, crazy, maddening, magnificent aliveness? Yeah, see, I don’t think so. So some time ago […]
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