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Gender Neutral Baby Creates Storm of Its Own–Can There Be a Happy Ending?

When Toronto parents Kathy Witterick and David Stocker decided to withhold identifying the gender of their baby from everyone except a few friends and the siblings, it turns out that naming the baby … [Continue reading…]

What Parents and Students Must Know About Getting into College

Getting into college seems a lot tougher these days than it was for us baby boomers a few decades ago. To better understand what it takes to navigate the college admission process I recently … [Continue reading…]

Happiness: Are We Distorting It By Thinking About It?

Is so much thinking, researching and dwelling on happiness causing it to elude us? In 2000 there were 40 books published on happiness. In 2008, when I was writing my book, Color Your Life Happy: … [Continue reading…]

5 Tips to Increase Your Confidence

Confidence and happiness go together, and yet circumstances and events around us threaten to strain that connection. Even the most confident of us can have moments of doubt or incidents that dampen … [Continue reading…]

Take a Little Motivation and Pass It On

Do you receive lots of chain email asking you to pass it to ten people in 10  minutes or else? If you're like me, you hit the delete key in a flash. It's not that I don't like sharing good stuff, … [Continue reading…]