Broad Oak Magazine

"If you're so clever, why aren't you happy?" a friend's mother would say to him. I'd turn that around. I think tha...

A British professor is urging us to join in his experiment to see how we can make ourselves more happy. Why do I feel oddly reluctant? Do yo...

Every morning, a blackbird in our neighbourhood starts to sing. It begins with two distinctive melodies, and then (like Eric Clapton in his ...

I wish I could embed this one, but please click on the link to see an outstanding and very funny example of hysterical greed: http://www.you...

Yesterday was a fine day. My wife meets our neighbour's mother, wheeling her 15-month-old granddaughter in the pushchair. The child is h...

The WSJ has published a list of the 200 best jobs (htp: Paddington). This should stimulate about 5 of the Seven Deadly Sins. Some surprises...

I'm coming to the end of Phil Hammond's funny, outrageous, informative and wise book " Medicine Balls ". Here's a bit ...

Elmer , a Filipino living in Hong Kong, comments on insurance group AXA's " Life Outlook Index ". He wonders whether being hap...

Do people actually want to be happy?

(Picture source) Money can improve happiness, below a certain income level; but above that point, the relationship is not so clear. And ma...

Cast Iron Gilt Buddha's hand, in the Jnana Mudra, gesture of teaching. It seems that happiness, like health, is not what you have, but ...