Recently I’ve been trolling through the articles in Positive Psychology News Daily (PPND) looking for ones on various topics — such as positive emotion, flow, goals, positive interventions, strengths — in order to create image maps for others to use as reader’s guides.
Some topics have been written about often — especially gratitude and using strengths. [...]
We just got back from voting in the North Carolina primary. Voting is an activity that brings back lots of memories…
About my paternal grandfather who claimed that he never missed an election, not even a local school board race, in his long adult life. As we face the difficult questions about how to [...]
In January, Frank Taylor Wright died, age 90.
For years, I’d heard stories from my children and husband about seeing him walking downtown dressed to the 9’s. He wore suits in a rainbow array of colors, complete with matching pocket squares, shoes, ties, socks, hats, and umbrellas. I’d love to include pictures here, but [...]
I am very fond of a paper by Dr. Sandra Schneider about realistic optimism, not the least because she works the words “warm fuzziness” into the title of an academic paper. How’s that for courage!
Schneider, S. (2001). In search of realistic optimism: Meaning, knowledge, and warm fuzziness. American Psychologist. 56, 3, 250-263.
She bases [...]
Quite by accident, I watched Nova last week. The show was about epigenetics, the biological mechanisms that control gene expression. The rest of this post is based on my TV show’s worth of education, so please just take it as just my impression. Look in Wikipedia or other sources for more accurate [...]
My latest article in Positive Psychology News Daily is called Social Activism: What Works? It is about a session at the Gallup Well-being Forum 2007 where Scott Sherman talked about what does and does not work with social activism. He wrote a dissertation on the analysis of 60 case studies involving social action [...]
When I was a girl, I read a book called Hitty, First 100 Years — the story of a doll as it passed through the lives of different generations. That came to mind this morning when I was making my bed and pulling up the quilt that I use as a bedspread.
This quilt was pieced [...]
Martin Seligman describes Meaning as the third pathway to happiness, where meaning comes from pursuing goals and purpose beyond oneself. He also claims that — unlike the pleasant life — the meaningful life has no set range, and thus is not limited by an individual’s inherent ability to feel good, an ability that varies [...]
