Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life

“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends.” That’s

September’s efforts had proved to me that happiness is not having less; happiness is not having more; happiness is wanting what I have.

The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self.

I also employed the weapon of convenience by making it easy to behave the way I wanted to behave.

Story of a Soul.

Here was a shelf of nothing but Harry Potter, here, my worn copies of the Narnia books, there, my beloved Little House books (Santa Claus brought me one volume each Christmas for nine years). The Elizabeth Enright and Edward Eager books I’d read so many times. Mary Stoltz, who didn’t get the attention she deserved. Streatfield, Barrie, Canfield, Co

I were looking back at this decision, five years from now, what will I wish I’d done?

What am I waiting for? What would I do if I weren’t scared? What steps would make things easier? What would I do if I had all the time and money in the world?

A Little Princess (greatest vindication story ever), The Golden Compass (greatest animal character ever), and Little Women