Anne Lamott and I are friends. Okay, not personally, but I follow her on Facebook. (We did have a moment a decade ago when I shook her hand after she gave a talk up in Berkeley. But anyway.) When her latest post popped up in my news feed this morning, a bunch of bells went […]
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How The Pursuit of Happiness Makes Us Crazy.
Posted in culture, grass-is-greener, identity, Paradox of Women's Declining Happiness, tagged "the shoulds", Consumer culture, Daniel Gilbert, Eric Hoffer, expectations, Facebook, happiness, New York Times, perfection, Ruth Whippman, Stumbling on Happiness, Undecided: How to ditch the endless quest for perfect and find a career -- and life -- that works for you on September 28, 2012| 1 Comment »
The last time our family got together — finding all of us in the same zipcode at the same time is a rare and wondrous feat — we hunkered down in a suite at the Holiday Inn Express (Backstory not important). With no bar or restaurant in sight, our family of foodies trekked to the […]
Unhappiness in the Time of Cougar Town
Posted in being judged, culture, Paradox of Women's Declining Happiness, the ticking clock, why women? on September 30, 2009| 11 Comments »
In all this analyzing we’ve been doing of the Paradox of Declining Female Happiness study, and the subsequent spinning of it courtesy of Marcus Buckingham and Maureen Dowd, there’s one point we’ve been pretty quick to gloss over: age. Not for long. I promise not to whine. But it does seem worthy of being addressed, […]
The Examined Life: Happiness Redefined.
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", feminism, Paradox of Women's Declining Happiness, why women?, worklife balance, tagged eat pray love, Ellen Galinski, feministe, Huffington Post, jillian Hewitt, Marcus Buckingham, Morra Arrons-Mele, the paradox of declining female happiness, Unhappiness gap on September 24, 2009| 2 Comments »
Hold the hankies, girls. Here comes the heresy. To wit, maybe we’re actually a lot happier than Marcus Buckingham et al think we are. It’s not that anyone disputes the data. Clearly, the numbers are all there, and they show that quantitatively, women rate themselves lower on the happiness scale than they did back in […]
Women’s Declining Happiness: The Paradox That Isn’t
Posted in being judged, feminism, Paradox of Women's Declining Happiness, why women?, worklife balance on September 21, 2009| 16 Comments »
A study by Wharton School’s Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, called “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness” that I first wrote about in July got a lot of attention this week. First, from self-helpuru Marcus Buckingham on the Huffington Post, in a piece trumpeted as the beginning of a series, and which benefitted from some […]
More Opportunity=Less Happiness. Wait. Really?
Posted in feminism, Paradox of Women's Declining Happiness, Uncategorized, tagged Betsey Stevenson, Business Week, Justin Wolfers, Marcus Buckingham, Marta Mossburg, more opportunities for women, Sunday London Times, the paradox of declining female happiness, The Washington Examiner, too many choices, Wharton School on July 3, 2009| 8 Comments »
Wharton School’s Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers published a study in May that’s been dubbed “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness.” The title kinda says it all, but the gist is that, while, 35 years ago or so, women reported being happier than men, today women–regardless of marital or employment status or whether or not […]
It’s Not Me… It’s You.
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", decision-making, life choices, worklife balance, workplace, tagged Ann Charlott Alstadt, gender pay gap, happiness, mindfulness, perfection, personal responsibility, second shift, structural change, Undecided, worklife balance, yoga on October 5, 2012| Leave a Comment »
The other day, a good friend who is Swedish emailed me a link to post by Ann Charlott Altstadt, a Swedish writer who suggests that when life gets us down, we’d sometimes be better off ditching the trip to the yoga studio or the psychologist and seeing a sociologist instead. Funny, my friend said, but […]
You! Don’t Change!
Posted in identity, tagged change, relationships on June 5, 2012| Leave a Comment »
My sister is running a marathon. I’m thrilled for her and have no doubt she will pound out those 26.2 miles in a red-headed blaze of glory. (And without crapping her pants. Seriously, it’s, like, a thing among marathoners. And I worry about this immensely.) What’s weird is this: I’m not jealous, because I don’t […]